Packaging Specialist

Responsibilities

• Stop the job for safety
• Maintains clean and sanitary packaging halls/lines
• Prepares and starts machines, observes operations, detects malfunctions, reports adverse conditions
• Stops and starts machines as necessary to accommodate production variables or make adjustments
• Inspects packaging components, codes, and products to ensure packaging according to specifications
• Fed packaging material and components to conveyors, hoppers, or other feeding devices, unloads packaged product
• Cleans and sanitizes piping from bright beer storage vessels to and through fillers via automated and/or manual methods
• Tends to transfer from bright beer storage vessels through filling machines to primary packaging containers
• Reports or records production and non-production data on designated forms in a timely, complete, and accurate manner
• Communicates with peers during shift changes regarding safety, cleanliness, action items, and technical items related to equipment effectiveness
• Follows departmental guidelines and procedures, maintains compliance with all documentation requirements within established document control programs

Qualifications and Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and smell.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to hot and or cold; wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts and vibration.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment can be in excess of 85db.

Pay and Benefits

• Compensation: $19 - $21 depending on experience.
• Benefits include paid company holidays, health and dental coverage, generous food and beer perks, paid time off, paid sick time, 401(k) matching and more.
• Additional health insurance coverage and additional paid time off benefits are available.