Packaging & Shipping Operator - 1st Shift - West Main

About the role

This position works 4 am to 4:15 pm on a 2/2/3 schedule.

Responsibilities

• Load outgoing cheese onto trucks and ensure shipping information and manifests are accurate.
• Inspect and receive incoming items; label ingredients with received date and transfer materials to proper storage.
• Maintain shipping and receiving logs and communicate discrepancies to the Production Supervisor or Cheese Manufacturing Manager.
• Perform trailer inspections for food safety issues or contamination sources and report deficiencies.
• Conduct daily motorized pallet truck inspections and daily shipping cooler temperature checks.
• Fill and maintain foot baths throughout the plant.
• Monitor inventory of pallets, pouches, and other packaging supplies; submit purchase requisitions as needed.
• Coordinate movement of materials and supplies between facilities.
• Follow aseptic sampling procedures for plugging blocks; re-seal and palletize sample blocks.
• Perform daily sanitation and housekeeping of dry storage areas, coolers, and motorized pallet trucks per the master sanitation schedule.
• Provide break relief for Packaging Operators and support operations in the department.
• Train others in essential duties and responsibilities within the department.
• Comply with all company Safety, HACCP, and GMP policies.
• Immediately report any food safety or quality issues to management or authorized personnel.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency (GED).
• Preferred: Experience in a manufacturing setting or shipping department.

Skills and abilities

• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, batch tickets, recording charts, equipment readouts, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before individuals or departments.
• Ability to perform basic math (add, subtract, multiply, divide) using units such as pounds, ounces, gallons, inches, whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to navigate Microsoft Office programs including Word, Outlook, and Excel.

Certifications

• Forklift Certification (company will train and certify internally).

Physical demands

• Regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to walk and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must frequently lift and/or move 40 lb blocks of cheese; may carry chemical containers weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.

Work environment

• Often exposed to extreme, non-weather related heat, wet and/or humid conditions; occasional exposure to outside weather.
• Occasionally works with and around hazards such as moving mechanical parts, Power Industrial Vehicles (e.g., forklifts), and toxic and/or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally works in confined or restrictive areas; loud noise levels may require ear protection.

Tools and equipment used

• Motorized pallet trucks, elevators, calculator, scanners, printers/labelers.

Personal protective equipment required

• Safety goggles, chemical-resistant gloves, hearing protection when working with hazardous materials or loud equipment.
• Recommended: face shield, chemical-resistant apron, coat, steel-toe boots.