Job description
Location: Birmingham, AL
Exemption: Nonexempt
Shift:
OUR COMPANY:
Ventura Foods is a leading global manufacturer of branded and custom food products that proudly helps food providers in the U.S., Canada and more than 60 other countries earn a special place on consumers’ tables. We do this by continually crafting custom dressings, sauces, mayonnaises, and other food solutions that exceed peoples’ expectations for great-tasting flavors and high-quality ingredients.
Headquartered in Brea, California, Ventura Foods operates 14 manufacturing facilities, 3 culinary centers, and numerous distribution centers across North America. When you work in our manufacturing and distribution facilities, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth, because you invest in ours.
Why Join Us?
Ventura Foods offers competitive pay, career growth opportunities, as well as a full suite of benefits for eligible employees, including:
- $1,000 Sign-on & Referral Program*
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time
- Medical & Prescription Coverage
- Dental Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Profit Sharing and 401k Matching
- Basic and Supplemental (AD&D) Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Shift Differential:
- 1st: N/A
- 2nd: $1.00
- 3rd: $1.50
Position Summary:
Consolidate the individual units on a pallet for proper storage or immediate transfer to the customer and/or consumer. Work in a manufacturing environment following appropriate policies and procedures to ensure successful execution of position responsibilities.
Shift Times (hours may vary +/- based on production needs) and subject to weekend work:
First: 6:45am-3:15pm
Second: 2:45pm - 11:15pm
Third: 10:45pm - 7:15am
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Sets up and assembles palletizer for production run
- Sets the number and pattern for each pallet and each order. Ensure that product is properly stacked on pallets by following the designated pallet patterns, minimizing or avoiding overhang, stacking cases straight, stacking cases without leaning and cross-tying tiers, as required. Visually inspect shippers prior to stacking for unsealed cases, damaged cases, stained cases, and cases with illegible, incorrect, or missing code dates
- Quality inspection of each individual pallet before transfer to shipping ensuring that they are not dirty, have broken or missing boards, have protruding nails or are wet. Ensure that product is stacked on the correct pallet (CHEP, Grade A White, Phytosanitary, etc.). Transport pallets with a pallet-jack
- Maintains operational sanitation including trash removal and re-boxing of damage, as assigned
- Assist in loading tape onto tape machines and adjusting tape machines. Operate a semi-automatic shrink-wrap machine to ensure that pallets are properly wrapped
- Maintains documentation of production output
- Communicates and shifts handoff to oncoming operator
- Good transactional discipline. Accurate scanning of productions cases produced
- Responsible for following all food safety policies, procedures and regulatory criteria including the current SQF code, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and associated preventive controls
- Other duties as assigned
Education and Experience:
- High School Diploma/GED or equivalent experience
- 1 or more years of experience
Knowledge and Skills:
- Requires good judgment, strength and stamina
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work at a fast pace
- Must be able to identify and report any food safety and food security concerns
Physical Demands:
Regularly requires intermittent sitting, standing, walking, climbing, squatting, kneeling, pushing, and pulling. Physical strength and dexterity sufficient to perform the required task(s). Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds or more with assistance. Additional demands may be required.
Work Environment:
In addition to normal business hours, work schedules may include after hours and weekends as needed. May work outside and in adverse temperatures which include extreme hot, cold, and humidity. May be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration. Must be willing and able to wear personal protective equipment as required by established Company Safety standards. May require work in confined and dark spaces, and at heights in excess of 18 feet for prolonged periods of time.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.
Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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