Float Packager & Curing Operator (1st Shift)

About the role

As a Float Packager & Curing Operator, this position supports both packaging and curing operations by performing a variety of tasks related to cheese handling, curing processes, packaging, labeling, and product movement within a manufacturing environment. This role ensures product quality, operational efficiency, and compliance with company standards, food safety requirements, and workplace safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the quality of packed cheese, weighing cheese as required, labeling, print quality, and the accuracy of printed codes.
• Place cheese onto conveyors and/or pack cheese into master cartons.
• Remove cheese from racks and place it into the crumbler, inspecting each piece for foreign material to ensure product quality.
• Oversee the crumbler for jams or clogs and perform necessary clearing to maintain continuous operation while following proper safety measures.
• Hand-stack substandard cheese onto separate racks, and stack empty racks for retrieval.
• Load inners/cases and monitor to keep full, ensuring no downtime.
• Apply labels to products, ensuring proper placement and alignment in accordance with company standards and product specifications.
• Tape cheese cases securely, ensuring proper sealing and adherence to packaging standards.
• Stack cheese cases onto pallets according to specific pallet configuration guidelines to ensure proper organization, stability, and efficiency during storage and transport.
• Turn the cheese in the curing rooms to support proper aging and inspect each piece for foreign material to ensure product quality.
• Maintain accurate cheese counts and report downgrades/dumps.
• Support the cheese extrusion and cutting processes.
• Inspect and monitor product quality specifications and report deviations and/or foreign material to ensure product quality.
• Perform sanitation duties.
• Comply with all Lactalis policies, programs, procedures, and documentation requirements to ensure an ethical work environment.
• Champion a safe work environment by performing tasks safely to avoid unsafe acts and unsafe conditions, and take necessary measures if observing unsafe acts.

Requirements

• A high school degree is preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in a food industry setting is preferred.

Skills

• Best practices and good industrial practices.
• Safety awareness.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Dependability and reliability.
• Attention to detail.

Pay

Starting rate of pay is $22.35 per hour, with an additional 20% weekend premium ($4.47).

Schedule

1st shift, either 5:30 am - 1:00 pm or 6:00 am - 2:30 pm depending on department scheduled in.

Benefits

Lactalis offers a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options, including:

• Significant support for insurance costs.
• Generous contributions to retirement plans.
• Paid Time Off from day one.
• Professional growth opportunities, including training, development, and Education Reimbursement.