The Bakery Flow Wrapping Machine Operator sets up, runs, and maintains horizontal flow-wrap packaging lines to package fresh baked goods efficiently. This role ensures perfect seal integrity, accurate shelf-life dating, and minimal product damage while strictly adhering to Food Safety, GMP, and HACCP standards.

Key Responsibilities

Sanitation & Food Safety: Maintain an allergen-conscious, sanitized workstation. Follow clean-as-you-go practices and strict HACCP, GMP, and SQF/BRC regulations.

Quality Assurance: Verify package seal integrity, gas flush levels (if applicable), and clear execution of batch codes and best-before dates.

Product Handling: Monitor automated infeeds to ensure delicate baked goods enter the wrapper without crushing, breaking, or causing jams.

Line Troubleshooting: Transparent film jams instantly, realign fin wheels,



and perform quick recipe changeovers between different product runs to minimize downtime.

Waste Tracking: Accurately document product scrap, film waste, hourly output logs, and machine downtime.

Qualifications and Requirements

Experience: 1+ years operating flow wrappers or high-speed packaging machinery, ideally within a bakery or commercial food manufacturing environment.

Certifications: Food Handling Certificate or basic knowledge of food hygiene standards is highly desirable.

Skills: Strong mechanical aptitude with the ability to handle delicate food products at high speeds.

Physical Demands: Ability to lift up to 15-20kg (film rolls), stand for extended periods, and work comfortably in environments with varying temperatures (near ovens or cooling tunnels).

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📌 Production Operator PM shift (New South Wales)
🏢 Mama Kaz Bakery
📍 New South Wales