Bag Catcher

Job Description

Bag Catcher
Florence, KY
Compensation: Starting Pay Rate of $19.02/hour
Available Shifts: 7am - 7pm, 7pm - 7am
Overview: Responsible for catching and inspecting bags, ensuring product meets quality standards with minimal waste.

• Continuously perform all required tasks in a safe manner, adhering to all established safety rules and procedures.
• Take immediate action to correct and/or report any unsafe conditions and hazards.
• Ensure guarding is in place at all times.
• Keep work area clean and organized, per standards.
• Ensure work is performed in a manner to produce quality products, according to quality requirements and specifications.
• Follow all applicable food service policies and procedures.
• Follow all PPE policies, wearing steel toed shoes, hearing protection, safety glasses, hair nets/beard nets, etc. as required.
• Meet production targets set by management.
• Catch bags as they come off machine and inspect bags for flaws in quality, assembly, print or other problems, and reject those that do not meet standards set by management.
• Report machine adjustments and repairs to be done to Collator Tender/Adjuster Supervisor.
• Inspect bales to ensure they are sealed properly and meet quality standards before banding together and placing on skid and banding bales together.
• Place labels on bales, making sure they are marked correctly, neatly and are upright.
• Spot check bales to make sure correct number of bags are enclosed.
• Ensure machine is shut off to prevent machine damage in a timely fashion.
• Must be able to keep up with budgeted machine speed.
• Assist Collator Tender, if needed, while he/she performs work on machines during downtime, assisting in stripping and changing rolls and in clean-up.
• Keep accurate production and quality reports, ensuring all required forms are filled out completely, accurately and legibly.
• Safely clean print when needed while machine is not running.
• Maintain adequate ink levels, adding ink and or PH Buffer as required.
• Perform roll changes as necessary.
• If no specific work instructions are given, clean-up is to be performed at your normal work area.
• Meet/achieve safety, quality, production, waste and housekeeping goals as set forth by management.

Qualifications

Reading, writing and basic math skills are needed to complete paperwork.
This is an entry level position.
Must have ability to discern detail and make decisions about bag quality.
Must be able to keep up with pace of machine.

Company Benefits

Benefits: Comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health.
Community Engagement: Support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs.
Training and Development: Constant opportunities for advancement through company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.