Packaging Specialist

About the role

This position is responsible for safely and accurately packaging products into drums, totes, and pails, ensuring proper, safe, clean, and efficient movement and handling of company products in tank trailers, hose connections, and packaging equipment.

Responsibilities

• Follow procedures for product filtration, movement transfers, sampling, labeling, and documentation
• Manually gauge and sample tanks and tank trailers
• Stock and sort product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels
• Package the product in the form that it will be shipped (drums, totes, pails, etc.)
• Sort, grade, weigh, and inspect products, verifying and adjusting product weight or measurement to meet specifications
• Line up transfer lines from the tank or tank trailer to the drumming machine or manual packaging
• Observe drumming machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards
• Palletize drums for shipment and placard with hazmat labels
• Attach identification labels to finished packaged items
• Operate lift equipment (forklift) for packaged product movement
• Inspect and remove defective products and packaging material
• Enter product information (e.g., product movement) into computer systems (e.g., LabSoft, ERP, Label Maker)
• Count and record finished and defective/quarantined packaged items in the ERP system
• Assist bulk and warehouse personnel in day-to-day activities as needed