Packer II

About the role

The primary responsibility of this position is to safely pack a quality productive product. This involves adhering to all company safety, GMP, and ISO policies, maintaining a safe work environment, performing quality checks, and ensuring correct product placement and labeling.

Responsibilities

• Follow and support all Company safety, GMP and ISO policies.
• Maintain a safe work environment by following safety policies.
• Perform required quality checks and understand the quality standards.
• Quality of the product.
• Insure the correct boxes are used.
• Insure correct labels are being applied to the boxes.
• Insure correct amount of product is placed in the boxes.
• Insure correct product is placed in the boxes.
• Reports bad quality product to Section Lead.
• Maintain good housekeeping.
• Reads “Traveler” – Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Checks special instructions.
• Must pass electric pallet jack certification.
• Work on lines, LD 98 & 9, AG Line & Fume Line.
• Packing Area: Set up tapers and change tape rolls. Set up and trouble shoot box erectors. Set up label applicator. Safe operation of bin lift. Safe handling of the bin gates. Know pallet stacking formations for all orders.
• In Line Packer: Safely pulling of plastic and picking up scrap. Helps string up downstream equipment. Know pallet stacking formation for all orders. Safe handling of hand taper and replacing the tape roll. Manual box making. Operates winders. Uses a J-Knife safely to cut and tuck product.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED, preferred.
• Experience in a team-work oriented environment a plus.
• Working knowledge of extrusion/converting equipment and process desired.
• Ability to use and read a ruler.
• Ability to read and understand a traveler.
• Ability to document quality and weight on bag check sheets.
• Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Reasoning Skills: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral and diagram or schedule form.
• Basic PC knowledge.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often subjected to changing priorities, time pressures and constraints, and a high level of job related stress.
• Work is performed in manufacturing operations where the noise level in the work environment is typically loud.
• Employees are required to use steel toed shoes, hearing and eye protection. Other PPE may be required when working around moving machinery.