Title: Team MemberDepartment: SaladLocation: Jackson, GAShift: 1st shiftReports to: Production ManagerPosition Summary:This role is a key position within our production room and supports our production team leads as they drive production to the highest safety, quality and efficiency standards. This position can perform anyone or multiple of the following roles within the room: packer, filler, stacker, box labeler, inspector.What if your job had a real impact? By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well being and planet health . Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables. Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods® and Bistro®.Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!Bonduelle Fresh Americas is a Certified B Corp for a better life. Bonduelle chose B Corporation because of its comprehensive and rigorous standards and its ability to measure a company's governance as well as worker, community, and environmental impact.We aim to make a positive impact on People, Planet and Food, as seen in our global B!Pact objectives. B Corp certification validates our positive impact and tells the world we are part of a community using business as a force for good.Key Responsibilities:
- Follows GMP/PPE, Safety guidelines, maintains HACCP & Sanitation guidelines & processes
- Utilization of proper tools (scoops) & correct tools to open bags following proper process
- Understands yield standards
- Works safely around moving equipment & conveyors in wet environment
- Places product & condiment into bowls
- Packs units into approved cases
- Follow specifications for certain salad blending
- Visually inspects bowls of packed product for quality to include proper bowl marking & positioning, seal integrity, weight & migration
- Ability to be crossed trained & multitask in multiple positions
- Maintain safe work environment
- Work in a fast paced environment
- Comply with SQF Regulatory Programs
- Maintains a clean work area at all times
- Notifies QA if product has quality issues (out of specifications)
- Must follow the proper process when using the decanting spray (remove condiments from bags, put in clean tote & spray bags before
- Ability to operate a dishwasher after checking to ensure soap is in the dishwasher
- Cleans bowls
- Maintain tools & equipment as delimited by the 5S marking
- Process of cleaning totes followed (manual or automatic)
- Ability to change out tape machine and box labeler
- Follow & enforce the 5S Methodology
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to read, write and speak English; comprehension of basic math.
- Willingness and flexibility to work in a cold, wet, fast-paced, 24 hour plant environment.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- GED/High School Diploma.
Physical Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, this position entails use of ladders and catwalks to reach production equipment, regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme cold for extended periods of time. The associate frequently works in high, precarious places. The associate is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.