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Press Room Operator - 1st Shift
2025-04-03
2025-06-29
Job Category: Food Production
Job ID: 44738222
Pay Rate: $21-23 / hour
Jobs Office: Alexandria
Job Description
Bring your operation skills to this new role! Doherty Staffing Solutions is partnering with a local warehouse for this exciting employment opportunity located in Long Prairie, MN. We are seeking candidates for Press Room Operator roles on the 1st shift. Compensation for these contract opportunities ranges between $21.00-$23.00 per hour, depending on skills and experience. Interested? Read below for more information.
What you’ll do as a Press Room Operator:
Doherty Staffing Solutions offers our valued contract employees health coverage through Benefits in a Card (preventative benefit and minimum value plans), along with weekly paychecks, a prepaid Paycard from rapid!, TopLine Federal Credit Union membership eligibility, and opportunities to earn appreciation bonuses through our referral and review programs. Learn more and find helpful links to additional resources at www.doherty.com/job-seekers/employee-benefits.
What you’ll do as a Press Room Operator:
- Review press and dryer machines for correct operational settings according to standard operating procedures; monitor production settings to achieve a scheduled poundage goal for each production run
- Evaluate and correct machine stoppages without close supervision
- Continuously monitor and maintain lengths in short goods and patterns in long goods according to ECP specifications
- Inform the Production Manager of any non-spec pasta that may require regrinding
- Prepare for shape changes according to the production schedule and ensure the proper blends of raw ingredients are used
- Assist in or conduct ingredient changeovers as directed by the Production Manager
- Assist in maintaining a detailed log of production events during each shift; maintain and review quality check sheets consistently during each shift
- Partner with Press Operator Assistant to clean up machine issues during operation, as requested
- Report safety and food safety issues to the Production Manager
- Assist Lab Technicians with pasta samples for moisture testing by removing products from machine process points three times per day
- Conduct inspections, record, and report findings in the semolina tailings and report findings back to Mill via Production Manager
- Maintain dies and perform additional die room duties in the absence of the die room attendant
- High school diploma or GED
- Ability to work weekends or overtime as needed
- Previous experience operating equipment in a manufacturing setting, working with production line control computers
- Must be able to walk for 6+ hours per shift
- Must be able to push/pull, balance, bend, crouch, kneel, sit, stand, stoop, and reach above shoulders
- Comfortable working in dusty, high heat/humidity production environment
- Ability to lift up to 10 pounds frequently and up to 50 pounds occasionally
Doherty Staffing Solutions offers our valued contract employees health coverage through Benefits in a Card (preventative benefit and minimum value plans), along with weekly paychecks, a prepaid Paycard from rapid!, TopLine Federal Credit Union membership eligibility, and opportunities to earn appreciation bonuses through our referral and review programs. Learn more and find helpful links to additional resources at www.doherty.com/job-seekers/employee-benefits.
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