Laborer Packaging Trainee- Nights B

About the role

The packaging handler position is responsible for toteroom (addback) functions. These duties include controlling toteroom (addback) activity, reworking cased product, and recase and stripout activities.

Responsibilities

• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.
• Tote room:
• Running of addback equipment (adding bulk product back to lines).
• Must be able to work in cold conditions and work safely amid constant hyster traffic.
• Must ensure correct bulk is blended to lines and must record pertinent information on addback activity sheets.
• Must rake product out of totes into addback hopper, if necessary.
• Must also help with overflow totes and waste totes (raking and/or changing).
• Communicate needs to hyster drivers with elevated noise levels present.
• Communicate with team leaders, leads, manifestor and other employees.
• Tools and equipment used: product rakes, shovels, squeegees, white carts, waste carts, electric pallet jack, broom and dustpan.
• Rework:
• Rework (strip out) of cased product into totes for adding back to lines.
• Correct marking of totes with pertinent information so as to be correctly manifested.
• Filling out of rework log (record of product reworked).
• Handling of re-case activities, case damage, bag rework, and cleanup when necessary.

Qualifications

• PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Based on a 12-hour workday.
• S - Seldom1% to 10%
  O - Occasional10% to 30%
  F - Frequent30% to 70%
  C - ConstantOver 70%
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English. Ability to write accurate information on simple forms in English. Ability to effectively present or listen to information in one-on-one and small group situations with all other employees of the organization in English.
• MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.