Lab Technician, Blue Buffalo Job at General Mills
Job Description:
About Blue Buffalo Heartland:
This is an exciting time to be part of the Blue Buffalo family, as the company is on a journey to revolutionize relationships with consumers (Pet Parents). Our Richmond, Indiana facility serves as a flagship plant for Blue Buffalo and has the capability to manufacture several varieties of dry dog and cat food. The Pet segment is unique in the General Mills’ portfolio because of the deep integration with the business and Supply Chain. There truly is no place like BLUE.
We are looking for buffs who come to the table with a shared passion for making food the world loves, to solve problems and shape General Mills - Blue Buffalo for the future. As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for analyzing samples and finished products, ensuring food safety, product quality and regulatory requirements for our food manufacturing process.
General Mills – Blue Buffalo encourages growth for our employees; if you want to learn new things, attain and prove competency quickly, and apply technology in the manufacturing space.
Lab Technician
What your compensation will look like:
Schedule:
Are you looking to feel valued at a company?
About Blue Buffalo Heartland:
“Love them like family, feed them like family.” Everything at Blue Buffalo starts with this simple idea.
This is an exciting time to be part of the Blue Buffalo family, as the company is on a journey to revolutionize relationships with consumers (Pet Parents). Our Richmond, Indiana facility serves as a flagship plant for Blue Buffalo and has the capability to manufacture several varieties of dry dog and cat food. The Pet segment is unique in the General Mills’ portfolio because of the deep integration with the business and Supply Chain. There truly is no place like BLUE.
We are looking for buffs who come to the table with a shared passion for making food the world loves, to solve problems and shape General Mills - Blue Buffalo for the future. As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for analyzing samples and finished products, ensuring food safety, product quality and regulatory requirements for our food manufacturing process.
General Mills – Blue Buffalo encourages growth for our employees; if you want to learn new things, attain and prove competency quickly, and apply technology in the manufacturing space.
Lab Technician
What your compensation will look like:
- $25.00 per hour
- Shift differential- additional $1.00 per hour when working between the hours of 7pm – 7am
- Up 10 days (120 hours) of vacation a year and 11 paid company holidays
- Great paid time off benefits
- 401(k) match
- Health Insurance including medical, dental, vision and life
- Pet Parent Perks including pet insurance and pet adoption reimbursement
- AND much more
What your day will look like:
- Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
- Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
- Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
- CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
- Manage and execute product inspections, analytical testing, and documentation
- Assist and support QA supervisor in meeting regulatory, food safety and compliance standards
- Conduct HACCP and SQF related monitoring and verification activities including control checks, audits, temperature checks, CCP verification, pest control observations, pre-shipment reviews, microbiological swabbing, and other processing procedural checks or inspections
- Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
- Assist in training new employees
What your schedule will look like:
Schedule:
- 12-hour shifts - 2 on, 2 off, 3 on schedule
- Day Shift: 7 am to 7 pm
- Night Shift: 7 pm to 7 am
- Currently hiring for Day Shift
- Ability and willingness to work overtime, any shift, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays
- Plant operation is 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
What your growth will look like:
- Be a part of a team that will learn and grow
- Develop leadership skills, that will allow you to focus on new KNOWLEDGE and ability to adopt and implement those ideas
- Ability to operate within a safety culture
- Expanded technical capabilities
What you have to offer:
- Minimum of a high school education or GED
- Working knowledge of AA, NIR and Leco systems a plus
- Knowledge of food industry quality/sanitation standards and requirements, SQF and FGSI knowledge a plus
- 1 to 2 years' experience worknig in a wet chemistry lab environment preferred
- Associates or BA degree in Chemistry, Science, Agriculture or related field preferred
- Experience in a manufacturing/production environment preferred
Physical requirements:
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
- Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
- Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net, and gloves when required
- Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
- Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
- Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
- Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
- Need to be able to work in a tobacco free environment
COVID-19 considerations:
The health and safety of our employees – and the food we make – is our top priority. We were an early adopter in instituting protection measures in our plants during the pandemic and continue to implement a number of safety precautions to protect our employees.
Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.
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