Packaging Associate - Dayshift

Packaging Associate

REPORTS TO: Production Supervisor

DIRECT REPORTS: N/A

Role

The Packaging Associate is responsible for the final review of finished product and packaging materials and for packaging product for delivery to our end user, the customer.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Support all LEAN and Continuous Improvement initiatives, including but not limited to 5S (Sort, set, shine, standardize and sustain) Standard Work and Eliminate Waste.
• Boxing of product sleeves
• Remove scrap products or from around the former and place in appropriate disposal buggy
• Using taping and/or box sealing equipment to properly seal the box
• Standard Work Practices or Processes (SWP) requirements, including but not limited to:
• Resetting the ink jet printers.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements, including but not limited to safety glasses, hearing protection and appropriate footwear
• Participate in all required communication and training meetings
• Load and stage KDs (boxes), as directed
• Communicate need for restock of packaging materials on the lines
• Sealing of bags
• Visually inspect finished products and packaging materials to ensure they meet quality expectations
• Build/stack boxes in accordance with pallet/stack layout
• Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Safe Quality Food (SQF) requirements, including but not limited to clean clothing that does not have beading, sequins, rhinestones, or other decoration that may become lose and fall into the manufacturing process, hair and/or beard nets, clean nails that are free of polish and natural eyelashes
• Change or replace tape in box taper
• General Safety Rule requirements, including but not limited to not taking unsafe actions; reporting near misses, unsafe conditions or incidents immediately to the Supervisor, following proper lifting procedures, being attentive and using common sense
• Assist in scrap management
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.
• Manually palletize as required
• Apply required labeling and ensure date coding and other necessary information is as expected
• Able to properly utilize packaging equipment, including
• Maintaining workstation organization
• Discard product that does not meet expectations in accordance with site procedures
• Clear product jams in packaging equipment
• Package all product types for all lines in the facility
• Recording/tracking production
• Must comply with all company policies and procedures, including
• Package final products in accordance with the specification requirements including
• Count and/or stack height
• Following step by step procedures
• Communicate concerns to Quality Auditor, Operator, Lead Operator and/or Supervisor
• Bagging of products
• Perform rework for rejected product or damaged boxes
• Operating the auto bagger and making minor adjustments as needed to ensure the product is protected.
• Safely utilize the grinders to ensure scrap is recycled in a manner that ensures reintegration into the manufacturing process
• Be cognizant of surroundings and report any environmental, equipment or material issues that may arise.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Interpersonal/Communication

• Willingness to work with others and be an active trainee and trainer.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely and productively as part of a cross-functional team.

Technical Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of quality standards
• Basic math skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply logic when performing responsibilities

Safety

• Proactively identifies and reports unsafe actions or conditions to the supervisory staff
• Basic understanding of the operation of machines and equipment to identify hazards
• Is mindful of their actions and those around them to ensure that incidents do not occur
• Basic understanding of E-stops including when and how to use them
• Demonstrates an understanding that safety is a value and is not to be compromised
• Understanding of authorized vs. affected Lock Out Tag Out employee

Education & Experience

• Comparable experience handling tasks that are repetitive in nature, at a steady pace.
• Previous experience in a manufacturing, distribution or other industrial setting preferred.

Ada - Essential Functions

• Use of hands, fingers, arms, and shoulders constantly
• Lifting to a maximum of 30 lbs.
• Reaching out frequently
• Visual acuity
• Additional information can be found on Job Profile Medical Assessment for Packaging Associates.
• Able to stand and walk constantly on a cement floor surface
• Rotating or twisting constantly

1101 West Harrison Road, Longview, Texas 75604

, Kilgore, Texas 75662

, Tyler, Texas 75701

, Gilmer, Texas 45644

, Marshall, Texas 75670

, Henderson, Texas 75652