Cheese Packager DAYS

About the role

Our culture encourages collaboration, transparency, and accountability in order to generate value and achieve sustainable results. Being part of the team means committing to an environment where everyone’s impact truly matters. At Agropur, accountability means owning challenges and taking concrete action to achieve results.

Responsibilities

The Packager position ensures the final product produced is packaged in the most sanitary and efficient way possible to meet customer needs and the overall goals of the organization. The Packager will work in all areas of the packaging as needed assisting each role of department.

• Operate conveyors pre spiral freezer for production.
• Direct product to the rework line as needed.
• Operate the rework system for production.
• Sanitation of the fresh stick conveyors.
• Sanitation of the rework system.
• Maintain brine fat removal system during production.
• Complete proper startup of the spiral freezer.
• Complete proper shutdown and CIP of the spiral freezer.
• Maintain operation of the spiral freezer during production.
• Complete sanitation CIP documentation.
• Complete proper set up of Xray machines.
• Complete proper shutdown and washdown of Xray machines.
• Maintain proper documentation for production.
• Trouble shoot Xray machines.
• Complete proper set up of Key Sorters.
• Ensure correct product recipes are loaded based off production schedule.
• Understand how to interrupt reject data from machine and relay to production.
• Complete shutdown and washdown of the sorters.
• Ability to determine if sorters are performing within expectations.
• Operate conveyors on the tote fill line.
• Manually insert tote liners into built totes.
• Manually build totes as needed.
• Proper placement of barcodes on totes.
• Manually level and de-cuff tote liners after fill.
• Complete sanitation of the conveyers.
• Operate the sorter reject conveyor.
• Operate the tote erector.
• Trouble shoot the tote erector.
• Clear jams on the tote erector.
• Fill glue for the tote erector.
• Complete dry cleaning of tote erector.
• Place tote lids on finished totes.
• Operate the dry pack finished tote conveyors.
• Operate the pallet inserter.
• Operator the pallet wrapper.
• Operate the pallet stacker.
• Change wrap and pallet wrapper.
• Trouble shoot pallet inserter, pallet wrapper and pallet stacker.
• Manually enter totes into pallet labeling system.
• Change labels and the pallet labeler.
• Complete packaging paperwork and pre-ops.
• Operator the rework system.
• Complete documentation of product being reworked.
• Work with production on adjustments of rework addition.
• Complete CIP of the rework system.

Other duties and responsibilities include communicating problems and potential problems to Lead and or supervisor, being an active part in the packaging process, offering suggestions to improve the packaging department, and doing whatever is needed to successfully complete the job.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum one (1) year of manufacturing packaging experience preferred.

Skills

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with supervisor and colleagues.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, adapt to a changing environment quickly, and think independently.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, establish priorities, ability to multitask, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to solve problems by adapting knowledge and experience.
• Results driven, bottom-line oriented, strive to exceed goals, and motivate self and others to achieve positive outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively at all levels in a collaborative team environment.
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Basic computer operational skills; able to input and retrieve computerized information.
• Exhibit a professional manner in dealing with others and work to maintain constructive working relationships.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package focusing on your physical, financial, and emotional health.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short and Long-term Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) with up to 7% company contributions.
• 3 Weeks PTO on day 1.
• Paid holidays and 2 floating holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Advancement Opportunities.
• Healthy work/life balance.

Pay

Starting Rate of Pay: $24.73 hourly, Sunday Double Time Pay.

Schedule

Schedule: 2-2-3 DAY shift, 7am - 7pm.