Job Description:
Company: Mars Wrigley
Location: Elizabethtown, PA
Title: Process Operator
Pay: $24.88/HR + $1.50/HR Shift Differential (rotating shift only)
What do we manufacture?
Dove Chocolate
Shift Schedule 2025 VS 2026:
What is the Current Shift?
2025: 4 Shift Rotation:
- Rotating shifts between 1st (6:30 AM -3:00 PM), 2nd (2:30 PM – 11:00 PM), 3rd (10:30 PM – 7:00 AM) and 4th (week off)
- 8 hour shift during the week (Monday- Friday)
- 12 hour weekend shift (off every other weekend)
- 1 consecutive full week off per month (in addition to other days off per month)
What is the Future Shift?
Early 2026: Fixed shifts (additional details to come once finalized)
*Additional information shared throughout the interview process
Job Purpose:
Process Operators are responsible for the following but not limited to: product/machine changeovers, hourly quality checks, CIPs (clean in place), product quality (weight, appearance, etc.) as well as assisting Production Coordinators and the Maintenance team when issues arise.
What are we looking for?
Minimum Requirements:
- High school or GED
- 3+ years of experience in a hands on manufacturing role
- Basic analytical and math skills
- Comfortable and able using laptops, ipads and Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Email, etc)
Physical Requirements:
- Frequent lifting/carrying (10-50 lbs.) and frequent pushing/pulling (50-200 lbs.).
- Frequent handling/gripping/bending/stooping.
- Ability to work at elevated heights off a ladder or platform, climb stairs, leaning over equipment.
- Ability to stand and / or work on feet for extended periods (minimum eight hours in one shift).
- Ability to work a flexible schedule as needed to support production needs and to conduct multi-task work in a very fast paced work environment
- Able to read, write, speak and understand English
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in a hands on manufacturing role
- Experience in a food or beverage manufacturing area
- Maintenance knowledge or capabilities
- Fork lift experience
What will be your key responsibilities?
- System experts in their assigned area and are highly functional in multiple areas.
- Ensures efficiency, operational conformance, product quality and continuous improvement.
- Directly responsible for the efficient production of quality products in the required quantities.
- Operate, monitor and change over machinery while providing problem resolution
- Train and perform the tasks of other associates in the area as needed and support the PC and Maintenance team
- Complete temper checks, capable of working in team atmosphere as well as working independently, complete CCP and OPRP checks daily.
- Maintain accurate records of quality checks and keep detailed logbooks.
Total Rewards/Compensation:
- $24.88/HR
- Shift differential of $1.50 per hour (rotating shift only)
- OT potential
- Annual bonus pay out
- Annual merit increases
- Medical, Vision & Dental- Starts day one!
- Up to 6% 401K match
- Paid Time Off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Short/Long Term disability
- 18 weeks parental leave
Allergies: This is a peanut FREE facility
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
