Job Description
Job Overview:
BATCHING LEAD
Please visit our website to learn more: PortlandBottling.com
Job Summary
- Schedule: Wednesday – Saturday, 6am – 4:30pm
- Location: 16800 SE Evelyn St, Clackamas
- 3 weeks of PTO to start, plus 9 floating Holidays!
The Batching Lead is responsible for coordinating team efforts to stage, batch, and blend beverage syrup with accuracy and timeliness. This position supports hourly team members to achieve daily goals in: safety, quality, productivity, and culture.
Essential Functions
Train and Develop a Quality Mindset:
- Train new hires in standard operating procedures.
- Proactively coach and provide feedback to team members
Lead by Example:
- Stage, Batch, and Blend beverage syrup with rigorous attention to detail.
- Conduct blending pre-operation checks.
- Perform environmental cleaning and sanitation.
- Operate C-I-P (clean in place) systems.
- Perform other duties as required.
Control Timing of Workflow:
- Review production schedules and manage batch start times.
- Minimize downstream delay by coordinating with all departments.
Food Safety and Quality Steward:
- Support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure batching work areas a maintained, clean, safe, and organized.
Coordinate Batching Teams:
- Facilitate communication between supervisors and hourly team.
- Receive and coordinate shift pass down.
- Report to the Batching Supervisor
Experience and Education Requirements
- 3- 5 years of experience working in a high-speed food/beverage manufacturing environment
- 2+ years of Staging, Batching, and Mixing/Blending experience
- 1+ year of experience working with an ERP system, Rockwell Automation’s Plex software preferred
- Proficient in standard methods of environmental cleaning and sanitation.
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Strong working knowledge of essential food quality and safety practices Proven resilience to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Demonstrated team player – Effectively work with groups of people with varying levels of knowledge, expertise and background to find win/win solutions
- Excellent problem solving - Anticipate, identify, and define problems. Seek root causes. Develop and implement practical and timely solutions.
- Good basic arithmetic. (Add, subtract, multiply, divide and round in all units of measure.)
- Proactively identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities.
Benefits
We go above and beyond for our customers. That’s why Portland Bottling Company offers a comprehensive, family-friendly package of compensation, benefits, programs, services, and support to ensure our team members can love what they do at work and enjoy their lives outside of it.
- Competitive pay
- Medical including Prescription and Vision
- Dental including Orthodontia
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- 401K with company match
- Generous pay for time off programs including paid personal time off (PTO), paid floating holidays, paid bereavement and paid jury duty
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Account
- Tuition reimbursement
- Targeted learning and development opportunities
All within a positive and friendly work environment.
If you think you have what it takes to be part of a company that strives to create a working environment that stimulates team spirit, passion, engagement, and achievement, we want to hear from you!
Who We Are
Our mission at Portland Bottling Company is to be one team, committed to providing real differentiated value to our customers by delivering the most trusted and highest quality solutions in the industry. That comes from providing an environment for our employees that is safe, promotes growth, development, and success.
As the Pacific Northwest’s leading co-manufacturer of ready-to-drink beverage products for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company provides flexibility and responsiveness, with unmatched regional and national reach, as well as the scale to handle the needs of any and all customers. PBC offers 24/7, end-to-end solutions with state-of-the-art equipment, in-line monitoring, and automated technologies for next level quality, reliability, efficiency and yield.
PBC values diversity in its work force and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
