Packaging Operator - (Guelph- RGU) $3,000 Sign-On Bonus

Mars, Incorporated; Guelph; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational food company in Guelph is seeking a dedicated individual for packaging operations to ensure quality control and efficient production. Responsibilities include operating packaging machines, leading a team, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in the food industry and possess strong leadership and communication skills. This position offers competitive benefits including a sign-on bonus.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus

Best-in-class learning and development

Industry competitive salary and benefits package

Qualifications

• Training and/or experience in functional tasks, preferably in the feed/food industry.
• Ability to work in a hot environment with unrestricted range of motion.

Responsibilities

• Perform packaging operations including quality control.
• Lead the packaging workforce to comply with production planning.
• Set up and operate packaging machines.

Skills

Leadership

Good communication

Team player

Safety & Hygiene conscious

Job description

Overview

Job Description: Hours: 12 hours shifts – Day: 7am-7pm; Night: 7pm-7am. Shift Rotation: Day shift: 2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off - Repeat but on night shift. This is a 2 week rotation. This position is eligible to receive a $3,000 sign-on bonus, broken into 2 payments of $1,500 to be paid at six and twelve months. This position also comes with a 4% Shift Premium.

Responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE: Perform packaging operations including quality control operations and close management of packaging team.

Safety

• All PPE must be worn in compliance with the OHSA/RC requirements
• Enforce/Respect the safety rules and the internal policy
• Stop any equipment / operative works / external company works if safety/environment protection/fire protection rules are broken

Environment

• Guarantee and apply ISO 14001 (Environment), and all related working procedures
• Ownership of environmental responsibilities listed in ENV-REF-002 – Associates SEA Matrix

Quality & Food Safety

• Guarantee and apply ISO 9001, FSS/ISO22000, Mars Standards, and all related working procedures
• Support the HACCP program in the department
• Follow GMP-GHP in the area
• Inform Shift Supervisor of quality deviations according to product standards and production procedures
• Maintain CCPs and oPrPs in the department
• Perform the CCP and oPrP’s procedure according to SOPs
• Sampling of products to ensure quality control (micro sampling)
• Report any pest activity to related Manager
• Perform and record quality control tests

Human Resources

• Adhere to multi-skills policy and acquire at least one additional competence as established with and by Management
• Training: attend any training program as scheduled by company management and train any designed person in the position
• Lead packaging workforce on line in order to comply with the production planning

Management & Responsibilities

• Set up packaging machines
• Operate packaging machines
• Stack packaged products in case / on pallets
• Monitor packaging machines
• Identify bags / case / pallets according to GMP
• Perform inventory of raw ingredients / packaging materials / finished products in bins, silos and racks (cyclical and period end inventories)
• Perform daily monitoring swabs (M swabs) as required
• Perform area-related equipment first level maintenance
• Any task as delegated by Manager
• Work closely with the extruder operator in order to maintain the highest efficiency of the plant for completion of the production planning
• Full knowledge of packaging operations (Paper bag machines, Plastic bag machines, Sampling machine, On-Process Check-Weigher, Inkjet, Labeler, Wrappers, Screeners, Scales, Quality control, Forklift / Pallet truck operations, Packaging materials / Finished goods…)

Cleanliness & Tidiness

• Perform Housekeeping Checks to ensure compliance to 5S
• Perform operational cleaning operations
• Change over cleaning
• Weekly cleaning
• Hypo cleaning

Communication & Information

• Provide any requested documentation to other Departments according to internal rules
• Shift changes: communicate with co-worker of next shift about machine problems, progress on production schedule, bin inventories, quality issue…
• Complete production reports as required by manager and record any production events (stops, quantity, quality…)

Qualifications

BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Training and/or experience in functional tasks (opt: knowledge of feed/food industry)
• Leadership, Good communication, Cost conscious, Initiative, Self-motivated, Team player, Safety & Hygiene & Quality conscious, Technically inclined, Unrestricted range of motion, Color discrimination, Olfactory & texture perception, Depth perception, Tolerance to hot environment.

Benefits

• What can you expect from Mars?
• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.