Job Posting Title General Labor Seasonal

The Pictsweet Company; Texas; On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

The Pictsweet Company in Monte Alto, Texas is looking for general labors to join our team. New team members will work as a crew member preparing raw vegetables for processing.

Responsibilities include inspecting, grading and sorting produce, handling cases, maintaining a clean work area and following all safety guidelines. Ability to work a 12-hour shift, 7-day week, and rotating shifts may be required.

Qualifications

• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read or interpret documents such as safety rules/signs, operating and maintenance instructions and procedures preferred, but not required.
• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions.

Responsibilities

• Inspects, grades and sorts raw vegetables for preparing, processing, and freezing.
• Examines, classifies and separates produce on conveyor belt according to grade, color, and size of product.
• Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign material such as metal, glass, wood, plastic, stems, leaves, insects, etc.
• Must notify superintendent, supervisor or QC Inspector immediately upon finding glass, rocks or animals (i.e. bird, rodent, amphibian, etc.)
• May trim product with a knife or paring tool.
• Maintains work area clean.
• Will don personal protective equipment (PPE) before commencing work.
• Follows all safety guidelines set forth by the Company.
• May form or erect cases.
• Manually closes case (folds flaps).
• Seals case by running case thru tape machine.
• Stamps date code on packed cases.
• Manually stacks twelve (12) three-pound, twenty (20) and thirty (30) pound cases of product onto pallets in the tie and height pattern assigned that item.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Overview

The Pictsweet Company in Monte Alto, Texas is looking for general labors to join our team. New team members will works as a crew member preparing raw vegetables for processing.

Responsibilities

• Inspects, grades and sorts raw vegetables for preparing, processing, and freezing.
• Examines, classifies and separates produce on conveyor belt according to grade, color, and size of product.
• Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign material such as metal, glass, wood, plastic,
• stems, leaves, insects, etc.
• Must notify superintendent, supervisor or QC Inspector immediately upon finding glass, rocks or animals (i.e. bird, rodent, amphibian, etc.)
• May trim product with a knife or paring tool.
• Maintains work area clean.
• Will don personal protective equipment (PPE) before commencing work.
• Follows all safety guidelines set forth by the Company.
• May form or erect cases.
• Manually closes case (folds flaps).
• Seals case by running case thru tape machine.
• Stamps date code on packed cases.
• Manually stacks twelve (12) three-pound, twenty (20) and thirty (30) pound cases of product onto pallets in the tie and height pattern assigned that item.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read or interpret documents such as safety rules/signs, operating and maintenance instructions and procedures preferred, but not required.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions.

OTHER:

• Ability to work a 12-hour shift.
• Ability to work a 7-day week; including holidays.
• Ability to work a rotating shift if necessary.
• Must have reliable transportation.