Production Operator Warehouse Cut & Wrap - Tualatin

Overview

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others - and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Primary Responsibilities

• Cuts, packages, and repackages products to customer specifications.
• Takes soft and hard cheeses, olives, and nuts from vendors' containers and re-sizes or packages them to meet customer specifications.
• Re-packages butter or dairy goods into smaller containers or units.
• Uses hand-held cutting tools and knives, hydraulic cutting machine, and scales to customize products.
• Re-packages cheeses for “dip sealing” or heat tunnel preparation.
• Operates Cryovac, x-ray, scale, heat tunnel, box tape, and sealing machine for labeling, weighing, preparing, and packaging goods.
• Transports products from clean room using carts, U-boats, L-boats, or pallet jack.
• Unboxes vendor goods and disassembles boxes for recycling.
• Assembles boxes in Cut and Wrap room for re-packaging products.
• Boxes products to prepare for shipping to the customer.
• Manually wraps soft cheese products using saran wrap and heat sealer.
• Applies knowledge of and follows proper food safety protocol for working in the exposed food area including Don/Doff smocks, hairnets, sleeves, steel toe shoes, and gloves.
• Applies knowledge of product and client specifications to understand product shape, sizes, and weight requirements for individual orders.
• Tolerates cold environment (38-54 degrees) for prolonged periods of time.
• Uses cleansers and rags to sanitize work area in between product changes.
• Handles water hose, soap, chemicals, brushes, and brooms to perform daily room cleansing.
• Repackages nuts, olives, and brine into containers for product shipping.
• Handles stainless steel baskets to dip bagged cheese for sealing.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• A High School Diploma or GED required.
• A minimum of one (1) year of previous experience in a distribution center or warehouse atmosphere preferred.
• Previous experience operating powered warehouse industrial equipment (i.e., forklift, pallet jacks, stock pickers, etc.) preferred.
• The ability to communicate well with internal customers and management.
• The ability to follow safe warehouse working practices, as instructed.
• The ability to efficiently work independent of direct supervision within the warehouse.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to carry, lift, and/or move up to 75 pounds.
• Frequent standing, walking, and climbing in the warehouse.
• Exposure to outside weather conditions.
• Subject to a warehouse environment where temperatures can vary from very cool to very warm.

Benefits

• Health/Rx Dental Vision
• Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
• Supplemental life insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Paid sick time
• Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
• Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
• Holiday pay for company designated holidays

Pay

Full-time Pay Range: $19.11/Hr. - $19.11/Hr.

Schedule

Shift Days: M-F
Shift Time: 6:00 AM