Job Description – Production Helper
Help production workers by performing duties of lesser skill. Duties include working on make-up machine, packaging machines. Supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment. Knead, shape, cut or roll dough products by hand and then place dough in pans, molds or on sheets. Train to rolls, cuts, and shapes dough to form of breads, rolls and all related products prior to baking.
Knowledge:
- Production and Processing – Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the quality of finish product.
- Basic GMP skills -
Skills:
- Equipment Selection – Determining the kind of dough and equipment needed to do a job.
- Operation Monitoring – Watching coworkers to facilitate moving product or other indicators to make sure the products are in the bakery’s standard…
Abilities:
- Manual Dexterity – The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate in the speed of the machines.
- Control Precision – The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine to the exact speed and positions of the production line.
- Information Ordering – The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules that require by the group leader or by the production manager
- Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Static Strength – The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Trunk Strength – The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without ‘giving out’ or fatiguing.
- Dynamic Strength – The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Multilimb Coordination – The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while standing in the production line.
Occupation Specific Tasks:
- Cleans equipment.
- Dumps materials into machine hopper prior to mixing.
- Loads and unloads processing equipment or conveyance used to receive raw materials or to ship finished products.
- Marks or tags identification on finish products
- Measures amount of ingredients and work to ensure conformance to specifications.
- Working on production line, according to procedure.
- Places or positions products or partially made products for further processing, manually, or using hoist.
- Removes products, machine attachments, and waste material from machine.
- Signals coworkers to facilitate moving product, during processing.
- Starts machines or equipment to begin process.
- Tends equipment to facilitate process.
Generalized Work Activities:
- Handling and Moving Objects – Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Performing General Physical Activities – Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Controlling Machines and Processes – Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Education and Training
Most Common Educational/Training Level: Short-term on-the-job training
Work context statements
Body Positioning
- Requires standing
- Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls
- Requires repetitive movement
Environment
- Requires working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures
Job Hazards
- Requires exposure to minor burns, cuts.
