Bottling Line Worker

Pelee Island Winery & Vineyards Inc; Kingsville; On-site; CAD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Pelee Island Winery & Vineyards Inc. is hiring laborers for food and beverage processing. This full‑time role involves material handling, packaging, equipment loading, and ensuring product quality in an indoor, controlled environment.

Shift lengths vary; schedule includes days and evenings from Monday to Sunday. Applicants must be physically fit, able to stand long periods and lift up to 23 kg. Forklift license preferred but not required; bottling line experience is an asset.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced food handling environments is beneficial.
• Forklift license is preferred but not required; bottling line experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Transport and handle raw materials, finished products, and packaging materials.
• Load, unload, and stack cartons, securing pallets for shipment.
• Feed and unload processing machines, including loading bottles onto conveyors.
• Measure and load ingredients into mixing and grinding machines.
• Inspect products and packaging for basic quality defects.
• Maintain cleanliness of work areas and equipment and ensure sanitation.
• Assist process control and machine operators with production tasks.
• Work efficiently under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Other duties as assigned by Bottling Manager.

Skills

Fast-paced environment

Food handling/Bottling asset

Job description

Laborers in food and beverage processing perform material handling, clean‑up, packaging and other elemental activities related to food and beverage processing. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, meat plants, breweries and other food and beverage processing and packaging plants.

Schedule:

Shift lengths are variable (Schedule is variable Monday‑Sunday Days and or Evenings) - Full time position

Job Responsibilities & Duties:

• Transport and handle raw materials, finished products, and packaging materials manually or with powered equipment.
• Load, unload, and stack cartons, securing pallets for shipment.
• Feed and unload processing machines, including loading bottles onto conveyors and feeding flattened boxes into forming machines.
• Measure and load ingredients into mixing and grinding machines or mobile tank trucks.
• Inspect products and packaging for basic quality defects.
• Maintain cleanliness of work areas and equipment, ensuring proper sanitation.
• Assist process control and machine operators with various production tasks.
• Work efficiently under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Forklift license is preferred but not required; prior food and beverage (bottling line) experience is an asset.
• Other duties as assigned by the Bottling Manager.
• Standing for prolonged periods of time
• Handling material manually
• Bending or twisting the body
• Making repetitive motions
• Applicant must be physically fit, heavy lifting up to 23 kg
• Must be able to stand and lift, use eyes and legs
• Standing for long periods of time
• Reaching above shoulder level.Lifting from floor to waist level

Skills:

• Ability to Work in a fast‑paced Environment
• Experience in Food Handling line (Canning/Bottling) Would be an Asset.

Work environment

• Standard safety equipment
• Indoors, environmentally controlled
• Sound and noise
• Indoors, not environmentally controlled

AODA Statement

Pelee Island Winery is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with

disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and meeting our accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Actand Ontario’s accessibility laws.