Machine Operator I - Packaging B Shift - LX

About the role

The Machine Operator reports to the Production Supervisor and performs repetitive production and packing operations to mass process products such as plastic bottles.

Responsibilities

• Works from a production schedule located within the work area
• Randomly checks product produced every hour, to ensure the customer specifications are met
• Maintains product flow by monitoring the flow of product into processing machinery
• Tends machines such as palletizers, case packers, injection machines and box machines to maintain product flow
• Works at different work stations as production needs require
• Checks finished product for possible defects
• Wears all required personal protective equipment
• Maintains a safe work environment and follows safe work practices
• Maintains housekeeping of work areas
• Maintains compliance with HACCP, GMP and Product Safety rules and guidelines
• Trains current and new members of the department to perform job related tasks as needed
• Learns new on the job skills as training opportunities become available
• Performs other tasks as assigned
• Attends monthly shift meetings at 6am for day shift or 6pm for night shift

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree
• At least one year manufacturing related experience and/or training or equivalent combination

Skills

• Manipulate product with both hands, above and below shoulder height
• Stand for a minimum of twelve (12) hours
• Lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds
• Ascend and descend stairs and ladders
• Perform repetitive motion with a pallet jack and push/pull up to seven hundred (700) pounds throughout the day (12 hour shift)
• Close visual inspection of product
• Work in temperatures of one hundred plus degrees during summer season and fifty degrees during winter season

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location
• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location
• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• Retail Savings Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)
• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)