Fabricator
Company: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
Location: Tulare
Posted on: January 20, 2023
Job Description:
4472 - FabricatorAre you looking to catapult your career by
driving high-impact transformation with household brands? - Do you
crave an entrepreneurial, fast paced and engaging growth assignment
working with incredible people from across the globe?At Dreyer's
Grand Ice Cream, we are excited to start a new chapter of
accelerated growth as part of Froneri - a global pure-play ice
cream leader. -Come help us transform DGIC into the #1 ice cream
brand! With nearly 100 years of winning experience in the U.S, a
robust portfolio of powerhouse brands that consumers know and love
such as H--agen-Dazs, Drumstick, Dreyer's & Edy's, and the backing
and coaching of European-based ice cream experts, we know we have
the winning recipe.Headquartered in Oakland, the Bay Area's hub for
up and coming food trends, our teams across our offices and
factories are raising the bar on all things ice cream. We are
investing in significant capital expansions to grow our Operations
and Supply chain, and are transforming how we work at every level
to become agile, accelerate growth and elevate our quality. With a
renewed focus on frozen treats, our tight-knit team of ambitious
innovators are fully immersed in the business and encouraged to
flex and make decisions quickly. We are committed to pursuing every
great idea and delivering the best ice cream experience for our
consumers, when and where they want it.Unleash your potential at
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and discover what a sweet career we have
in store for you!This person is responsible for all aspects related
to the on-shift maintenance as well as factory-wide capital
requests/initiatives of fabrication and welding according to
Froneri corporate and local strategies, standards, specifications
and local codes and regulations. This will include but not limited
to the following:
- Designs, creates and effectively builds tools, equipment, and
repairs.
- Required to weld per food grade standards, sanitary weld
standard, etc.
- Maintain liaisons with other departments, disciplines and
facilities to provide necessary support and maintenance for optimal
factory operations
- Provide direction, training and capability building of
technicians regarding basic welding and basic welding repairs
- Comply with all safety and environmental regulations (Internal
& External) and applicable Froneri standardsRole and Activity
- This is a hands-on role, providing visibility and accessibility
on the factory floor and not sitting in the workshop waiting for a
call.
- Ensure that all machining is done timely to meet capital
projects/initiatives staying within budget.
- Ensure that the machines are ready for a smooth run during
production at lowest waste levels.
- Keep yourself informed of production plans/project scope or any
other changes. It is important to be proactive in finding out what
is happening rather than waiting to be told.
- Look for issues. Do not wait to be told or instructed to
complete a task
- Awareness of all machinery fabrication problems or any
unfinished jobs.
- Ensure emergency break downs are addressed quickly.
- Operate on a "one-man for one-job" policy, however, without
compromising safety & training.
- Ensure your work areas are clean and organized including, the
area you are working in, the workshop and the store. Always
maintaining the "clean as you go" policy in all areas.
- To ensure the machines that produce products meet the customer
specification, quality and food safety.
- To be proactive in looking for areas of improvement and to
adopt techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality
environment in production
- Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and
that a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the
factory
- Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend
to the issues as and when they happen.
- Promote the Froneri culture of treating the business as your
own. - -Stores -
- Engineering stock is always correctly booked out and accounted
for
- Items for disposal are stripped for usable parts
- Parts to be replaced must be delivered to stores before
obtaining new ones.
- Treat the store like your own garage at home promoting
ownershipMaintenance Tasks
- Ensure that only you carry out the required maintenance & only
replace worn/ broken parts, providing feedback on frequency.
- Drive the tasks through required work from observations and
data, not just theoretical plans
- Maintenance follows production, not the other way around
- Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company food safety
polices
- Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and
procedures in order to ensure that you and any other persons using
the area of work, can do so safely.
- Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment with
maintained traceability
- Treat all spend as if they are your own
- Encourage dry production areas and report any "ghost busting"
activities.Measurable Outcomes
- Production productivity
- Balance maintenance on preventative vs planned rather than just
corrective where it is feasible
- Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues
- Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met
- Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels
- Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented
- An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI'sBehaviors
- Performance - Open to change and will always look for better,
simpler and more effective ways of operating. Operate under
controlled speed and pressure
- Hands on approach. - Decisions and plans based on seeing and
being part of the event, not solely based on report reading. Know
and understand the process and machinery.
- Zero compromise on Quality and excellence. - Hygiene, process,
speed and waste.
- Entrepreneurial - Challenges the status quo and explores new
ideas and opportunities
- Continually striving to increase knowledge of processes and
products - Understand all tasks, processes and activities as an
expert in Ice cream.
- Teamwork - Commitment and enthusiasm to working together to
achieve better outcomes, with a sense of customer service towards
the factory.
- Accountability - Personal commitment, methodical and
self-disciplined, logical thinking.
- Consumer focused -Support production to deliver products at
agreed quality standards.This person is responsible for all aspects
related to the on-shift maintenance as well as factory-wide capital
requests/initiatives of fabrication and welding according to
Froneri corporate and local strategies, standards, specifications
and local codes and regulations. This will include but not limited
to the following:
- Designs, creates and effectively builds tools, equipment, and
repairs.
- Required to weld per food grade standards, sanitary weld
standard, etc.
- Maintain liaisons with other departments, disciplines and
facilities to provide necessary support and maintenance for optimal
factory operations
- Provide direction, training and capability building of
technicians regarding basic welding and basic welding repairs
- Comply with all safety and environmental regulations (Internal
& External) and applicable Froneri standardsRole and
ActivityFactory Engineers and dept
- This is a hands-on role, providing visibility and accessibility
on the factory floor and not sitting in the workshop waiting for a
call.
- Ensure that all machining is done timely to meet capital
projects/initiatives staying within budget.
- Ensure that the machines are ready for a smooth run during
production at lowest waste levels.
- Keep yourself informed of production plans/project scope or any
other changes. It is important to be proactive in finding out what
is happening rather than waiting to be told.
- Look for issues. Do not wait to be told or instructed to
complete a task
- Awareness of all machinery fabrication problems or any
unfinished jobs.
- Ensure emergency break downs are addressed quickly.
- Operate on a "one-man for one-job" policy, however, without
compromising safety & training.
- Ensure your work areas are clean and organized including, the
area you are working in, the workshop and the store. Always
maintaining the "clean as you go" policy in all areas.
- To ensure the machines that produce products meet the customer
specification, quality and food safety.
- To be proactive in looking for areas of improvement and to
adopt techniques and practices that ensure that there is a quality
environment in production
- Ensure that health and safety requirements are fully met and
that a positive safety culture is maintained throughout the
factory
- Ensure that you walk the talk and use the looking eyes, attend
to the issues as and when they happen.
- Promote the Froneri culture of treating the business as your
own. - -Stores -
- Engineering stock is always correctly booked out and accounted
for
- Items for disposal are stripped for usable parts
- Parts to be replaced must be delivered to stores before
obtaining new ones.
- Treat the store like your own garage at home promoting
ownershipMaintenance Tasks
- Ensure that only you carry out the required maintenance & only
replace worn/ broken parts, providing feedback on frequency.
- Drive the tasks through required work from observations and
data, not just theoretical plans
- Maintenance follows production, not the other way around
- Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company food safety
polices
- Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and
procedures in order to ensure that you and any other persons using
the area of work, can do so safely.
- Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment with
maintained traceability
- Treat all spend as if they are your own
- Encourage dry production areas and report any "ghost busting"
activities.Measurable Outcomes
- Production productivity
- Balance maintenance on preventative vs planned rather than just
corrective where it is feasible
- Zero rejections for product food safety and quality issues
- Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met
- Costs are maintained at/below budgeted levels
- Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented
- An improving trend on the submitted weekly KPI'sBehaviors
- Performance - Open to change and will always look for better,
simpler and more effective ways of operating. Operate under
controlled speed and pressure
- Hands on approach. - Decisions and plans based on seeing and
being part of the event, not solely based on report reading. Know
and understand the process and machinery.
- Zero compromise on Quality and excellence. - Hygiene, process,
speed and waste.
- Entrepreneurial - Challenges the status quo and explores new
ideas and opportunities
- Continually striving to increase knowledge of processes and
products - Understand all tasks, processes and activities as an
expert in Ice cream.
- Teamwork - Commitment and enthusiasm to working together to
achieve better outcomes, with a sense of customer service towards
the factory.
- Accountability - Personal commitment, methodical and
self-disciplined, logical thinking.
- Consumer focused -Support production to deliver products at
agreed quality standards.EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- HS Diploma/GED required. Associates Degree or Technical
Certification in related field preferred.3-5 years of food
manufacturing maintenance or related maintenance experience
preferred
Keywords: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Tulare , Fabricator, Other , Tulare, California
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