Production Heavy Labor 2

Seneca Foods; Yuma (AZ); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Seneca Foods is seeking a reliable Warehouse Associate to support packing operations in a fast-paced facility in Arizona. The role involves lifting and sorting materials, preparing pallets, and ensuring products meet quality standards.

You will work closely with supervisors to keep equipment running smoothly and maintain a clean, safe workspace. Applicants should be able to work long hours in a cold environment, communicate effectively with team members, and follow SOPs, GMP, and safety

Qualifications

• Active listening to understand others and ask appropriate questions.
• Judgment to weigh costs and benefits for decisions.
• Clear verbal communication with team members and supervisors.
• Critical thinking to identify problems and solutions.
• Commitment to servicing others and helping teams.
• Efficient time management in a fast-paced warehouse environment.

Responsibilities

• Stack and separate packed boxes and prepare pallets.
• Lift raw materials and finished products manually or with pallet jack.
• Monitor equipment and report malfunctions or safety concerns.
• Inspect products for quality and conformity to standards.
• Maintain clean, safe work areas and follow SOPs and GMPs.
• Follow manager instructions and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Active Listening

Judgment & Decision Making

Speaking

Critical Thinking

Service Orientation

Time Management

Job description

Seneca Foods is one of North America's leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States. Our high quality products are primarily sourced from over 1,400 American farms. Seneca holds the largest share of the retail private label, food service, and export canned vegetable markets, distributing to over 90 countries. Products are also sold under the brands of Libby’s®, Aunt Nellie’s®, READ®, Seneca Farms®, Green Valley®, Green Giant (Shelf-Stable)®, CherryMan®, Paradise®, Pennant®, and Seneca labels, including Seneca snack chips. Seneca also provides vegetable products to other companies under various co-pack arrangements.

Seneca Foods offers an excellent benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, 401K, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Paid Time Off and more! Help us make our Farm Fresh Goodness Great! Come join the Seneca Foods team –

SUMMARY:

The objective of this position contains several duties throughout the packing facility, Stacking, lifting, dumping raw materials, picking up raw materials from the floor, cleaning, working in wet areas for a long period of time, packing, and/or sorting. Tasks and duties include loading product, monitoring and manipulating materials at various stages of processing; filling various sized containers; and preparing product for shipment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Separate and stack packed boxes
• Setup and prepare pallets to stack packed boxes on
• Lift raw materials, finished products, and packed items, manually or using pallet jack.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected; notify supervisors or operators of any malfunctions or safety concerns.
• Examine products to verify conformance to quality standards.
• Immediately notify supervisor of any process deviations from specification or any contamination of product.
• Maintain a clean work area, free of safety hazards
• Picking up raw materials, finish product from the floor
• Ability to communicate and work well with others
• Perform repetitive functions paying attention to detail
• Ability to work with and around water for a long period of time
• Perform all assigned duties in a proper and timely manner
• Cooperate with supervisors and managers and ensure compliance with all Company policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Ability to follow and obey management instruction
• Any other duties assigned

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Work Abilities

• Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time.
• Fast paced setting warehouse environment.
• Work area is inside in 32degree cold temperature rooms. Area is well ventilated with constant noise, well lit; include forklifts, wet/damp environment, wet floors, and moving belts. Attention to keeping foreign objects off belts is required safety factors
• Hazards encountered include lifting packed boxes, roller belt (chain), cold temperature, forklift traffic.
• Smoke-free work environment.

PHYSICAL DEMAND:

• Job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions.
• Willing and able to work long hours and be available nights and/or weekends as required by the business needs.
• Working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors).
• This job requires working in constant cold temperature (below 32 degrees)
• Prolong Standing/walking, crouching, stooping, twisting, balancing, leg/foot use, reaching, overhead extension, handling, pushing/pulling.

Seneca Foods Corporation is committed to providing equal opportunity for all, through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. No employee or applicant will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. Seneca Foods Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and feel you need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact us at [e-mail] or call 585-495-4100.