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Machine Operator - Nights

Mars
USA
Full-time
Mid
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities

  • As a technical Machine Operator, you will serve as the system expert for our high-speed making and packing equipment.
  • Equipment Operation: Safely and efficiently operate advanced packaging and processing machinery to meet daily production goals.
  • Diagnostics & Maintenance: Assess equipment reliability, perform routine preventative maintenance (PMs), make mechanical adjustments, and troubleshoot malfunctions to the root-cause level.
  • Product Quality Ownership: Conduct standard quality control checks, including metal detection, date code verification, item number checks, and critical control point (CCP/oPRP) audits.
  • Operational Execution: Load packaging materials, clear equipment jams, reset machine faults, and lead seamless product changeovers.
  • Data Management: Utilize basic computer systems to record production metrics and maintain clean, accurate shift documentation.
  • Safety & Sanitation: Maintain a safe work environment by strictly adhering to personal safety practices and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
  • Position Requirements
  • Minimum Qualifications:
  • Education: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent civilian/military education.
  • Experience: Passion to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment (2+ years of manufacturing machinery operation preferred, but equivalent mechanical/technical military experience is highly valued).
  • Professional Skills: Strong communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
  • Physical Requirements:
  • Ability to stand on a concrete floor for extended periods.
  • Physical mobility to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, and climb stairs.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain OSHA forklift certification (Mars will provide full on-site licensing and training for forklift assignments).
  • Willingness to wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hair net, bump cap, ear plugs, safety shoes, and uniform.
  • Military & Veteran Technical Equivalency Guide
  • At Mars, your technical training and mechanical expertise are highly respected. If you served in any of the following fields (or a related occupational specialty), your background maps directly to this technician role:
  • U.S. Army: Allied Trade Specialist (91E), Wheeled Vehicle Repairer (91B), Track Vehicle Repairer (91H), Bradley Fighting Vehicle System Maintainer (91M), Horizontal Construction Engineer (12N).
  • U.S. Navy: Machinist's Mate (MM), Machinery Repairman (MR), Engineman (EN), Gas Turbine System Technician (GSM/GSE), Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM).
  • U.S. Air Force: Aerospace Propulsion Specialist (2A6X1), Aircraft Metals Technology (2A7X1), Tactical Aircraft Maintenance (2A3X3), Pavements & Construction Equipment (3E2X1).
  • U.S. Marine Corps: Machinist (2161), Metal Worker (1316), Engineer Equipment Operator (1345), Main Battle Tank Repairer (2146), Motor Vehicle Operator (3531).
  • U.S. Coast Guard: Machinery Technician (MK), Damage Controlman (DC).
  • About Mars, Incorporated
  • Mars is a family-owned business with over a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5TM, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health, and services businesses such as Banfield Pet HospitalsTM, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCATM, and Pet PartnersTM.
  • The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates to take action every day toward creating the world we want tomorrow.

Qualifications

  • Education: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent civilian/military education.
  • Experience: Passion to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment (2+ years of manufacturing machinery operation preferred, but equivalent mechanical/technical military experience is highly valued).
  • Professional Skills: Strong communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
  • Ability to stand on a concrete floor for extended periods.
  • Physical mobility to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, and climb stairs.
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain OSHA forklift certification (Mars will provide full on-site licensing and training for forklift assignments).
  • Willingness to wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including hair net, bump cap, ear plugs, safety shoes, and uniform.
  • Military & Veteran Technical Equivalency Guide
  • U.S. Army: Allied Trade Specialist (91E), Wheeled Vehicle Repairer (91B), Track Vehicle Repairer (91H), Bradley Fighting Vehicle System Maintainer (91M), Horizontal Construction Engineer (12N).
  • U.S. Navy: Machinist's Mate (MM), Machinery Repairman (MR), Engineman (EN), Gas Turbine System Technician (GSM/GSE), Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM).
  • U.S. Air Force: Aerospace Propulsion Specialist (2A6X1), Aircraft Metals Technology (2A7X1), Tactical Aircraft Maintenance (2A3X3), Pavements & Construction Equipment (3E2X1).
  • U.S. Marine Corps: Machinist (2161), Metal Worker (1316), Engineer Equipment Operator (1345), Main Battle Tank Repairer (2146), Motor Vehicle Operator (3531).
  • U.S. Coast Guard: Machinery Technician (MK), Damage Controlman (DC).
  • About Mars, Incorporated
  • Mars is a family-owned business with over a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5TM, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health, and services businesses such as Banfield Pet HospitalsTM, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCATM, and Pet PartnersTM.
  • The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates to take action every day toward creating the world we want tomorrow.
  • Passion to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment (2+ years of manufacturing machinery operation preferred, but equivalent mechanical/technical military experience is highly valued).

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