Packaging Laborer 1st Shift

RPMGlobal; Valdosta (GA); On-site; USD 46,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

Job summary

Martin’s is seeking a Packaging Laborer to operate packaging machinery and ensure product quality on the line. The role involves standing for long periods, lifting up to 50 pounds, and coordinating with the Line Control Supervisor to resolve quality issues.

Pay rate is $21.85/hr with weekend premiums, and schedules typically run 6:50 AM to 3:00 PM with a 6-week rotation of days off. This is a full-time on-site position offering 401K, disability insurance and paid holidays.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Experience in food manufacturing or machine operation is preferred.
• Ability to stand for long periods and lift up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates product entering packaging for quality standards.
• Removes substandard product from the line.
• Communicates quality issues to Line Control Supervisor for correction.
• Operates and adjusts slicers and packaging machinery; requests necessary repairs from maintenance.
• Maintains cleanliness and adheres to safety and GMP regulations.

Skills

Quality control

Packaging machinery operation

Safety compliance

Team communication

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

Slicers

Packaging machinery

Palletizing equipment

Job description

Come join our Team as a Packaging Laborer! We started with pastries handmade by Lois and Lloyd Martin produced inside of a garageand we have boomed into a multi-facility company where our many products are produced by machines and shipped domestically and internationally. Talk about a rich history and exciting future!As an employer of choice we offer physical, emotional, financial and professional benefits including 401K, disability insurance and paid holidays.

As a member of the Martin’s Family, a 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 Martin’s by being an ambassador of superior quality and service.

Pay rate: $21.85/hr. and Weekend Premiums, paid weekly!

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Week 1: OFF OFF 8 8 8 8 8

Week 2: OFF 8 OFF 8 8 8 8

Week 3: OFF 8 8 OFF 8 8 8

Week 4: OFF 8 8 8 8 OFF 8 8

Week 5: OFF 8 8 8 8 8 OFF 8

Week 6: OFF 8 8 8 8 8 8 OFF

Your shift schedule will typically be 6:50AM - 3:00PM, however, you must be willing to work up to 12 hours depending on business needs.

You will work a 6 week rotation of days off.

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.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience

• Education: High School Diploma/GED
• Related food manufacturing and/or machine operating experience preffered

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand for long periods of time. Employees uses hands to finger, handle or feel’ reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and smell. Employee is required to walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, crouch and/or crawl. Ability to frequently lift and /or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.