General Labor - CoPacker - 1st Shift Monday through Friday

At Ken’s Foods, we manufacture Ken’s Salad dressing and Sweet Baby Ray’s barbeque sauce. The process—from following the recipe, creating products using established specifications and quality processes, packaging into retail and food service containers, to shipping the product to our customers—is all handled under our roof.

About the role

The Co-Packer is responsible for preparing finished products to be packaged and shipped. Associates are stationed at an assigned area in the warehouse, retrieving items as needed from inventory stock to complete various display builds. The objective is to focus on improving processes to ensure customer needs are met in a timely fashion while maintaining high-quality, cost-effective logistics services.

Responsibilities

• Understand machine operations and use safety precautions when the machine is in operation (pinch points, sealer, heater, moving conveyor).
• Perform manual labor, including stacking, lifting, bending, building trays/flaps, and banding.
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards and systems to monitor food safety, food safety culture, quality, and facility cleanliness.
• Build multiple display pallets using finished good product onto or from pallets, trays, racks, and shelves according to established design.
• Load packaging materials into machines.
• Apply labels to finished good pallets.
• Reprocess raw material and packaging items for display builds.
• Shrink wrap and label all finished display pallets with identifying information.
• Sweep, dust, and mop work areas.
• Organize warehouse and work area for orderliness.
• Ensure work area is accessible and safe for salespeople and customer traffic.
• Follow order fulfillment to ensure a successful and timely conclusion.
• Operate manual pallet jack and electric pallet stacker.
• Perform general housekeeping and other duties as assigned.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Ship product free of contamination.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods Security and GMP policies.
• Report any suspicious activities anywhere in or around the facility.
• Inspect work area for any possible product contamination issues on a continuous basis.
• Report any leaking or spilled product immediately.
• Inspect all incoming and outgoing product for signs of contamination.

Requirements

• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Able to work with chemicals and cleaning products.
• High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) equivalent; or 6 months of experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and communicate effectively with other employees and Team Leaders.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit; use hands or fingers, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to walk and climb or balance.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Mental Alertness Requirements

• Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment.
• Not mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect the ability to safely and competently perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions.
• Ability to work in an unfatigued state.
• Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
• Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short-term memory.
• Ability to concentrate.
• Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
• Demonstrated caring, commitment, and concerned attitude about safety.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to:

• Moving mechanical parts.
• High, precarious places.
• Risk of electrical shock.
• Vibration.
• Moderate noise level.

Pay

Co-Packer positions start at $18.00 per hour, paid weekly.

Schedule

Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM.

Core Values

• Safety: Safe. Aware. Committed.
• Quality: Our Pledge: Safe, Quality Food.
• Teamwork: Communicate with Respect and Trust.
• Ownership: Dedication. Improvement. Accountability.
• Performance: Integrity. Passion. Solutions.

Employment with Ken’s Foods is contingent upon successful completion of a drug test, background screening, and pre-employment assessment.