Operator - 400

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains and complies with total quality controls according to USDA standards relating to inspection, grading, sorting, handling, and shipments that ensure NAPI’s concerns on food safety.
• Reads source documents such as canceled checks, sales reports, or bills, and enter data in specific data fields or onto tapes or disks for subsequent entry, using keyboards or scanners.
• Compares data with source documents such as printed price tickets with entries on purchase orders to verify accuracy and notify supervisor of any discrepancies, locate and correct data entry errors.
• Records all receipts of potato products, packing materials, and other materials ordered and received for use at Fresh Pack.
• Verifies perpetual inventory computations by comparing them to physical counts of stock and initiate investigating discrepancies or adjusting errors.
• Completes the accounting records for specific area, after receipt of daily product receiving and packing records from the respective departments.
• Prepares orders for product based on phone or mail-in orders from outside customers and internal NAPI communications. Communicate these orders verbally and follow up in written format to the Manager/Supervisor so that they can prepare production scheduling.
• Sets up functions on tag printers using a computer.
• Places price information on tickets, marking by hand or using ticket-printing machine.
• Records number and types of articles marked and packs articles in boxes.
• Records price, buyer, and grade of product on tickets attached to products sold.
• Indicates item size, style, color, and inspection results on tags, tickets, and labels, using rubber stamp or writing instrument.
• Completes order receipts.
• Puts merchandise on conveyors leading to wrapping areas.
• Maintains an organized work area to keep track of all product tagged and recorded on an hourly and daily basis, or as directed by supervisor.
• Ensures all products are tagged properly and according to orders placed.
• Sorts, grades, weigh, and inspect products; verifies and adjusts product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
• Makes sure the production line is running smoothly by monitoring it, checking for problems such as pile-ups, jams, or glue that is not sticking properly.
• Attaches (pin, paste, sew, tie, staple) identification labels to finished packaged items, or cut stencils and stencil information on containers, such as lot numbers or shipping destinations.
• Stocks and sorts product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenishes packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels.
• Packages the product in the form in which it will be sent out, for example, filling bags with potatoes from a conveyor or bin.
• Inspects and removes defective products and packaging material.
• Removes finished packaged items from machine and separates rejected items.
• Counts and records finished and rejected packaged items and all outgoing orders.
• Maintains poly bag machine to ensure it is calibrated daily and operates to fullest capacity at all times.
• Inspects product load for accuracy and safely moves it around the warehouse or facility to ensure timely and complete delivery.
• Operates forklift and transports materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
• Manually or mechanically loads or unloads materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.
• Performs routine maintenance on forklift, machines or auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.
• Operates or tends automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.
• Turns valves and opens chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.
• Signals workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
• Keeps work area clean in and around machine floor.
• Shares the responsibility of making sure bailer is up and running during production hours with stackers.
• Corrects any inventory problems as they arise.
• Stores completed documents in appropriate locations.

Other Works

• Collaborates, cooperates, and coordinates with fellow team members and with others in the organization, treating them with respect, courtesy, and consideration, and showing understanding and appropriate support of other team members to help get the job done.
• Provides information, guidance, and resources to diverse groups of customers, clients, and others outside of the organization; treats them in a friendly manner with professionalism, helpfulness, respect, courtesy, and consideration at all times regardless of circumstances.
• Maintains regular, dependable attendance and punctuality, and physical presence at the assigned worksite; must interact directly with people or objects at the worksite on a regular basis.
• Communications technology may, for certain tasks and under certain circumstances, enable an employee to effectively perform some of the work-related duties from home on a temporary basis.
• Performs other duties as assigned and which are deemed necessary or desirable by NAPI.