Description What IF you started your career with a company set on excellence through building relationships and delivering results? Joining Innovation Foods is just that! A career here means you are joining a rapidly growing organization, known for its community outreach, diversity, inclusivity, and premier production facilities. In addition to being a great place to work, Innovation Foods strives to offer its employees a holistic career experience that incorporates learning and development, wellness, and exceptional benefits. Our benefits include:
- Competitive Pay Rates
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription plans with wellness incentives
- Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (on applicable plans)
- 401k Plan - with a company match
- Company funded Long Term and Short-Term Disability
- Company funded Life Insurance Policy
- Paid Vacation and Sick Days
Job Description - Downline Operator Location: Millville, NJ Shift: 6:00PM - 6:00AM - 12 hour shift - 2,2,3 Schedule Reports to: Operations Supervisor Job Summary: Operate and constantly monitor the packaging machines and palletizer to achieve production goals, and to identify and alert maintenance and management of mechanical and operational issues. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure the equipment is stocked with packaging materials such as corrugated wraps and glue for cases and stretch wrap at palletizer
- Operate automatic palletizer and wrapper
- Monitor the manual palletizing during shift to ensure steady production
- Set-up and monitor barcode scanners and printers
- Operate forklift when needed
- Perform all quality checks such as monitoring the temperature, weight of the product, verifying gable codes, and case codes
- Accurately document and report operator quality inspections, take line samples per guidelines, and monitor case packing equipment to ensure it is functioning correctly
- Clear jams and spills and manually operate equipment as necessary
- Picking and staging outbound orders
- Effectively maintain product storage and rotation
- Unload, sort, and stack pallets keeping the palletizer always loaded
- Provide break and lunch relief to co-workers in the area
- Attend and participate in daily shift meetings
- Uphold visual management of the work area
- Follows and supports continuous improvement methodologies
- Strict adherence to all safety, health, and environmental policies
- Strict adherence to all GMP and food safety policies
- Perform necessary preventive maintenance on equipment as needed
- Report all equipment malfunctions and abnormalities to Maintenance Technicians for follow-up and repairs
- Create and follow-up on work orders for area as needed
- Completes all required training on time
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations related to weights, measures and record keeping
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions
- Ability to read, speak, and write in English
- Required to regularly lift up to 50lbs
- Flexibility to work overtime and additional shifts based on business needs
Desired Qualities:
- Collaborator - able to work with other members of the processing team
- Adaptive - adjusts to changing priorities and conditions
- Motivated - self-starter with the ability to work in a team and independently to achieve team objectives
- Safety conscious - abide by all safety measures put in place at Innovation Foods
- Customer focused - understands the need for the highest standard of food quality in production
Innovation Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact ...@innovation-foods.com for assistance.
Pay Range $18.00 None to $0.00 None