Mill Operator

Company: UFM
Location: Richmond
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

The Mill Operator is a developmental role designed to build skills in all mill operations. This role is responsible for running flour milling production. It is critical for promoting safety, quality, milling efficiency, and helping achieve the company's goals and objectives. We rely on this individual to train, mentor and develop mill employees. This position will work shifts with patterns allowing for work-life-balance, which provide days off each week. Our schedule alternates weekend off.

MILL OPERATOR RESPONSIBILITIES:


Responsible for cleaning, tempering and milling wheat.
Responsible for understanding and following all personnel and equipment safety policies, all GMP, HACCP, Sanitation, and Business Unit policies and procedures.
Perform sanitation of all areas as required per the (MSS) Master Sanitation Schedule(s) and/or as required as-necessary to maintain sanitation standards - to include interior and exteriors of all areas.
Promote a safe work environment through knowledge and adherence to safety policies.
Ensure food safety and food defense in the plant.
Maintain mill sifters and screens. Identify, assist and repair all flour and air leaks withing your assigned master sanitation areas. Assist with other maintenance needs in the mill.
Maintain mill purifiers and bran dusters.
Ensure all procedures and documentation requirements are completed as required.
Create, review and/or adjust all cleaning procedures and/or systems to be most effective and to improve quality and food safety performances overall.
Communicate and create work orders for any structural or mechanical deviations that would lead to any negative sanitation or pest control results.
Understand written customer specifications and mill flour to meet customer specifications.
Ensure safe and efficient operation of all transferring equipment and systems.
Sample and analyze milled flour.
Analyze flour with lab instruments. Safely operate lab analytical instruments.
Required to assist with the upkeep and quality of bins and silos. Wear a full-body secondary fall protection harness, if necessary.
Climb stairs and ladders (both step and extension).
Monitor flour additives, ingredients, supplies, flour and feed inventory.
Interact with other department employees to communicate workflow and to ensure production efficiencies.
Responsible for consistently conducting visual inspections of the FPZ transfer sifter.
Train to develop into a Shift Miller. Responsibilities will include flour milling, wheat cleaning and tempering, record keeping, maintenance, sanitation, planning, coordinating, and communication.
Maintain mill operation and performance in absence of Shift Miller.


MILL OPERATOR QUALIFICATIONS:


High school education.
Advance degree or certifications preferred.
2+ years of manufacturing, maintenance or mill processing experience, is a plus.
Strong reading comprehension, writing, math, and communication skills.
Strong work planning and decision-making skills.
Analytical skills to recognize and assess problems.
Interpersonal skills communication and team skills.
Ability to meet strict deadlines and schedules.
Ability to wear required PPE.
Must have a critical thinking mindset, be curious, seek to understand and assist Shift Miller with daily tasks.
Communication skills in English (both verbal and written).
Basic computer skills (for data entry and process control).
Safety training is required and provided by the company in group settings, as well as individual computer-based training.
The expectation is that this individual will train and be qualified for additional mill operations responsibilities, leading to the development of Shift Miller skillsets.
Ability to work unsupervised.
Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and lead others to work as a team.
Strong attention to detail.
Demonstrated mechanical aptitude.


WORKING CONDITIONS:


This position requires physical efforts such as straining, pulling, lifting, working, and standing and walking on concrete floor.
Exposure to elements such as noise, minable dust, cold and hot temperatures.
Extreme climate or climate variation.
Heat more than 100 degrees and below freezing temperatures.
Exposure to manufacturing equipment hazards like moving machinery and passing forklifts.
Climbing ladders and working in elevated space which may require fall protection equipment.


BENEFITS:


Medical Insurance (first day of the month after start date)
Health Savings, and or Flexible Spending Account
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance and AD&D, Employer Paid
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
Employee Assistance Program
Accident Insurance, Optional
Critical Illness Insurance, Optional
401K, Employer Match
PTO & Vacation Pay
9 Paid Holidays
Company Product Discounts
Tuition Reimbursement, up to $5,000.00 per calendar year
Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave
Company Incentive Plan
Bereavement Pay
Relocation Available


Utah Flour Milling is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state, or local law. PM21PI3614f32a516d-25660-37405051

Keywords: UFM, Lehi , Mill Operator, Other , Richmond, Utah