Whey Packager Jobs

Job Summary

This person will be in charge of packaging and performing regular quality assurance checks on powder or cheese.

Essential Functions

• Restocks bag room with supplies (bags, pallets, cardboard and routine maintenance items)
• Records number of bags filled
• Complies with all applicable food safety regulations and mandates (Safe Quality Foods, Food and Drug Admin, Pasteurized Milk Ordinance)
• Wraps stacked powder in cellophane sheets and places in warehouse with a forklift or pallet jack
• Monitors cheese levels in towers
• Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act which are applicable to his/her own actions and conduct.
• Checks and records metal detector sensitivity
• Pulls samples of product for laboratory analysis (every 25th bag)
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Cleans packaging room and assigned areas
• Packages powder or cheese, seal bags, and stack on pallets
• Ensures proper unloading of cheese blocks from towers
• Ensures correct weight loaded in bags or boxes
• Checks bin levels to avoid bins overflowing
• Performs tare weight check

Qualifications

• Excellent record required in safety, attendance, and punctuality
• Knowledge of the proper use of all cleaning chemicals
• Ability to read and write instructions in English
• Ability to operate (or learn to operate) necessary equipment
• Must be able to read numbers and do simple math (addition and subtraction)
• Must be able to work weekends, and overtime as required
• Ability to stand and walk the entire shift if needed

TYPICAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Physical Demands

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee and the work environment characteristics are those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements

• Rarely (1-25%) stand, sit, talk or hear, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally (25-50%) walk, lift and/or move 26 to 60 lbs.
• Frequently (51-75%) use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Specific vision requirements for this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point); depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

Typical Environmental Conditions

May be exposed to 85+ noise levels in which hearing protection will be needed.

DISCLAIMER

Must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation efficiently and accurately without causing significant safety threat to self or others. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required of all personnel so classified.