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Machine Operator- Batcher

Kelly Services
  • Niles, IL
  • $22 Per Hour
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Job Description

Job Description

Job Description
Machine Operator Batcher
Location: Niles, IL

As a Batcher, you’ll prepare and mix ingredients accurately, verify formulas, monitor quality, and help keep our production plant running smoothly. Your focus and dedication will help us maintain our high standards for quality and innovation.

Shift: 2nd Shift (Mon-Thur, 4:00 PM?–?2:30 AM)
Pay: $22/hr
Type: Temp-to-Hire
Key Responsibilities:
  • Operate mixers, scales, timers, and systems for accurate batching
  • Pre-scale and prepare ingredients, premixes, and manually scaled items
  • Verify formulas, weights, and labeling for production compliance
  • Adjust formulas to maintain product quality and reduce waste
  • Monitor and control temperature and consistency
  • Complete batch schedules, inspections, and production records
  • Perform Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) safety checks
  • Make and document quality decisions during mixes
  • Participate in safety, continuous improvement, and GMP meetings
  • Assist with cleaning, safe chemical handling, and general labor as needed
  • Report malfunctions and work with maintenance or supervisors for solutions
  • Foster safety, accountability, and continuous improvement in the workplace
What We’re Looking For:
  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Minimum 2 years’ manufacturing experience required (food processing preferred)
  • Ability to perform basic math and use computer-based batching programs
  • Basic food safety & associate safety knowledge
  • Mechanical aptitude and manual dexterity
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to adapt and make quality decisions in fast-paced environments
  • Team player with a continuous improvement mindset
Physical Requirements:
  • Able to stand and walk for extended periods, climb, reach, bend, and lift up to 55 lbs
  • Work in noisy environments with PPE
  • Comfortable with temperature fluctuations, humidity, and exposure to bakery ingredients
  • Ability to work multi-shift and handle equipment/materials safely
This is a temp-to-hire opportunity with long-term growth potential for committed, high-performing individuals!
 
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life-just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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Numbers & Facts

LocationNiles, IL
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1946
Websitehttps://www.mykelly.com/

About Company

Finding great work for top talent. 

Kelly helps companies recruit and manage skilled workers and helps job seekers find great work in industries such as accounting and finance, education, engineering, government, manufacturing and production, technology, and more.

Since inventing the staffing industry in 1946, we’ve become experts in the many specialties and local and global markets we serve. With a network of suppliers and partners around the world, we connect 450,000+ people with work every year. We ensure companies have the people they need, when and where they’re needed most.

 

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Bakeryunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Federal Governmentunmatched
  • Food Safetyunmatched
  • GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
  • High School Diplomaunmatched
  • Ingredient Preparationunmatched
  • Manual Dexterityunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Mathematicsunmatched
  • Physical Demandsunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Quality Managementunmatched
  • Quality Monitoringunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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