Hand Packer - 1St Shift Starting Pay $17.66

Make Happy! Work Happy at Russell Stover Chocolates!
At Russell Stover, not only do we love chocolate, but we love our jobs! Every day we go to work exhibiting our values of excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and collaboration. Working at Russell Stover you'll be part of the leading manufacturer of boxed, seasonal, and sugar-free chocolates. For over 100 years, our American-made brands – Russell Stover Chocolates, Whitman's, and Pangburn's – have been crafted with the finest ingredients to bring happiness to generations. Today, we produce over 55 million pounds of chocolate annually, and our legacy brands can be found in 13 company-owned stores and over 9,000 wholesale accounts. Join our team and let's continue making chocolate lovers happy!
A day in the life…
The Packer works on the end of the line and is the last person to handle the candy before it is packaged for our customers. A successful person in this role will be able to work well in a fast paced environment, be a team player, have fast hand and wrist dexterity and the flexibility to work across various areas. The key responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:

• Pack only first quality candy
• Must be able to understand specifications for each type of product as established by Russell Stover Chocolates and recognize deviations from those specifications
• Control waste on the line
• Requests, receives, secures, maintains, packs, and delivers product (raw and finished) per Russell Stover guidelines
• May be assigned other duties by plant management as required
• Notify leads or supervisor if inferior candy, wrong bases, incorrect description, incomplete boxes or other pertinent questions
• Conforms to rules
• Performs clean-up activities as assigned
• Requires high level of manual dexterity

A TYPICAL SCHEDULE FOR THIS ROLE IS 10 HR SHIFTS MONDAY - THURSDAY. START AND END TIMES WILL VARY WITH THE EARLIEST START BEING 5:15 AM AND THE LATEST END TIME BEING 3:45 PM. DURING PEAK SEASON, OVERTIME MAY BE REQUIRED.
***AFTER COMPLETION OF YOUR APPLICATION - PLEASE CALL 785-263-3343 TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW ***
Benefits

• Weekly Pay
• Life and Disability Coverage
• Internal Promotions and Career Development
• Climate Controlled Environment
• Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Company and Community Events
• Employee Discount
• Great Benefits- Medical, Dental and Vision
• Holiday Pay
• Sweet Rewards

TO BE CONSIDERED AN APPLICANT FOR THIS POSITION, YOU MUST SHOW HOW YOU MEET THE BASIC QUALIFICATIONS AS OUTLINED IN THE REQUIREMENTS.
Do you have what it takes?
Basic Qualifications
18 years of age or older
Able to read and write in English
Able to lift up to 50 lbs
Able to routinely and frequently stand, stoop, bend and lift overhead during a 10 hour shift
Ability to stand on hard surfaces for the duration of a 10 hour shift
What it's like at the Russell Stover Plants

• Activity. Some activities may require standing in one place for long periods, walking around, or climbing stairs/ladders, and routinely lift 50 lbs.
• Temperature. You will be comfortable year-round with our climate-controlled environment. Our temperatures are consistently around 63°F but could fluctuate depending on your specific role.
• Safety. Your safety is important to us, so we provide protective gear. We also go through an in-depth Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) training on your first day and continue to share safety tips daily
• Dress code. Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for food safety, personal safety and in guidance with our good manufacturing practices (GMP). Comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required. Leather, imitation leather, or rubber boots or shoes must be worn in the kitchen and other areas when working around hot liquid/product or hot water.
• Smell. You will enjoy a variety of deliciously sweet aromas and you may end your day smelling like chocolate!
• Surroundings. You'll be working around different machines – Schubert's, forklifts, electric pallet jacks, and chocolate candy banks/steels.

At Russell Stover Chocolates, we don't just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Russell Stover Chocolates is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
Company Description
Founded in 1923, Russell Stover Chocolates is a large producer of fine boxed chocolates in the United States. It began in Denver, Colorado as a candy business in the home of Russell and Clara Stover. The original candy, marketed as “Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies”, changed 20 years later to Russell Stover Chocolates. The three principles of quality, service and value allow Russell Stover to remain “Only the Finest”.
Russell Stover Chocolates has sales in all 50 states and Canada. We operate company-owned retail shops throughout the United States and at over 70,000 drug stores, card and gift shops, grocery stores, department stores and retails stores. In September 2014, Russell Stover Candies was acquired by Lindt and Sprüngli, a Swiss based international conglomerate sold in more than 80 countries with production sites in Europe and the US, distributing on four continents.
Employment by Russell Stover Chocolates is contingent upon I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification, and satisfactory reference and background checks.
Russell Stover Chocolates is an EOE/MINORITY/FEMALE/VET/DISABLED/ employer. Principals only please
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