Job Position: Picking / Packing Location: Valdosta, GA 31601 Pay Rate: $17.70/hr Shift: Pkg 2nd shift, 2:50p-11pm. Shifts are very fluid and are expected to change per production. Summary: The Packaging Laborer is responsible for machines that perform packaging functions and ensures that unpackaged and packaged products are of exceptional quality. The packaging laborer openly gives and receives truthful feedback, shares helpful knowledge with teammates, goes the extra mile, and represents the company by being an ambassador of superior quality and service. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Evaluates product entering packaging for quality standards.
- Removes substandard product from the line.
- Communicates quality issues to Line Control Supervisor for correction.
- Removes packaged product from conveyor line.
- Places packaged product into baskets
- Monitors packaged product for quality standards.
- Packs special arrangements or selections of product.
- Verifies that the date packaged is correct.
- Starts and adjusts slicers and packaging machinery; requests necessary repairs from the maintenance team.
- Straightens product progressing along a conveyor line.
- Starts, adjusts, and monitors economy packaging equipment.
- Operates palletizing equipment.
- Operates the bagging and kwickloc equipment.
- Maintain counts of finished product to meet orders generated via the load coordinating department.
- Communicate product clip demands to Line Control Supervisors.
- Remove full or partial pallets of product from equipment for staging.
- Refill boxes of bagging equipment.
- Monitor clips on finished product and perform checks for accuracy in regards to clip color, date, product, and price.
- Monitor and operate sticker machines and pattern makers.
- Maintain cleanliness of area.
- Assists co-workers when system is not running properly.
- Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance.
- Supports organizational culture and values by following policies, working with integrity, building morale, and respecting and putting others before oneself.
- Adheres to safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.
- Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.