Production Tier 2

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

Become a pivotal force on the Clover team, operating cutting-edge filling machinery to bring our fresh, high quality fluid milk to the community. In this position, you will be required to maintain sanitary conditions for machinery in keeping with State and Federal regulations and company policy.

As a purpose-driven, certified B corporation, Clover is leading the way for conscious businesses by demonstrating care for all stakeholders and moving the world forward. We are committed to lowering our environmental impact and meeting our sustainability targets, by providing kids and adults with healthy, nutritious, and delicious products that are made with care for animals, people, and the planet.

Hourly pay rate: $32.13 (will receive a $2.00 increase in $0.50 increments every 3 months in a 1-year period per the CBA)

A Day in the Life

• Process and package fluid milk products

• Operate all necessary bottling and processing equipment

• Utilize good manufacturing processes at all times

• Maintain safe food handling and processing standards as required by company policy and State/Federal regulations

• Recognize mechanical irregularities related to production and packaging equipment

• Perform data entry accurately

• Execute all job duties in accordance with Clover's rigorous Food Safety and Quality programs and policies

• Fully understand your role and associated responsibilities for maintaining food safety and quality at Clover

What You Bring to the Team

• Minimum High School diploma or GED required

• Ability to follow directions and stay on task

• Focused and detail-oriented

• Ability to read and understand policies and guidelines

• Computer experience, ideally

• Organizational and time management skills

• Ability to lift/push/pull up to 50 lbs, including bending and twisting

• Experience with warehouse or food with food safety training and experience

• Experience in a dairy processing plant highly desirable

Special Licenses preferred (Clover provides training)

• Weigher and sampler license

• Pasteurizing license

• Forklift

  
  

Conditions & Working Hours

• Work partly outdoors

• Work around various detergents and sanitizing solutions ranging in temperatures from 70 degrees Fahrenheit to 160 degrees Fahrenheit

• Lifting boxes ranging from 40 to 50 lbs

• Moving pallets ranging from 500 lbs to 2,500 lbs with a pallet jack

• Lift 10 gallon milk cans that range from 50 lbs to 80 lbs

Clover Sonoma is a 24 hour/7 days a week processing and distribution plant. Work schedules vary, flexibility is critical. Shifts are typically four (4), ten (10) hour days.

We value Clover Sonoma’s company culture and values and an ideal candidate would: Have an overwhelmingly positive attitude; Value and listen to other team members; Possess the aptitude for creative problem solving and critical thinking; and Have the courage to do the right thing even when difficult or unpopular.

Pursuant to Clover Sonoma’s Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Policy, applicants to this position are required to take and pass a drug test with results satisfactory to the Company following a conditional offer of employment and before commencing work.

About Clover Sonoma

Based in Petaluma, California, in the heart of beautiful Sonoma County, Clover Sonoma offers high quality dairy sourced from its network of local family farms. A pioneer in sustainable dairy farming Clover has the largest organic acreage of regeneratively farmed land in the state and is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by lowering on-farm methane emissions, regenerative farming practices focused on soil health and packaging innovation. The first dairy in the US to become American Humane certified across all of its farms, Clover has delivered on its promise of producing the highest-quality dairy products — including milk, cheese, butter, and more — for more than a century. As a Certified B Corporation® Clover gives back 5% of net profits to help make nutritious food more accessible and uses its business as a power for good across its support for people, farms, animals, community and planet. For more information, please visit www.cloversonoma.com and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.

We appreciate your interest in Clover Sonoma!

Please direct all job-related inquiries to recruiting@cloversonoma.com, as we cannot accommodate phone inquiries. We are not working with outside agencies or recruiters at this time.

Clover Sonoma is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to these factors.