Catcher/ General Labor 2nd Shift
About The Position
Catcher/General Labor is responsible for performing a variety of tasks in a manufacturing environment. This position is expected to rotate among stations to perform essential job functions including coring, trimming, cutting, slicing, chopping, mixing, packing, box-making, palletizing, dumping, drying, housekeeping, janitorial duties, waste management, and material transport. The role involves handling fresh produce, operating machinery, and maintaining cleanliness in production and employee areas. Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this position.
Requirements
- Must be able to push/pull/lift up to 50 lbs.
- Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this position.
Responsibilities
- Coring, trimming, cutting, slicing, and chopping a variety of fresh produce items on the trim line for the duration of 8 hours or more depending on volume.
- Using hands, a shovel or rake to mix one type of produce into another, or separate clumps of produce.
- Packing bags of finished goods into corrugated boxes, containers, etc.
- Making boxes out of corrugated material for the pack-out line.
- Stacking boxes of finished goods onto pallets.
- Loading and unloading raw materials into automatic dumping bins and/or manually dumping product directly onto feed conveyors.
- Loading and unloading raw materials into automatic dryers and manually dumping product directly onto feed conveyors.
- Maintaining a clean production area.
- Maintaining clean employee break areas such as cafeteria / restrooms, ensuring proper cleaning supply inventory and completing documentation as required.
- Maintaining product waste area, monitoring levels of trailer waste, maintaining a clean work area, monitoring functionality of equipment in area and reporting failures to maintenance, and communicating with appropriate personnel when trailer is full.
- Maintaining adequate levels of GMP supplies. Monitoring inventory and communicating supply needs to the Production Clerk.
- Operating a pallet jack to move raw/finished product or packaging materials to and from processing lines.
- Using a knife or peeler to trim, cut, or peel product.
- Moving arms forward in a "throwing motion" or pushing mixed vegetables into product and mixing it together while bent over.
- Handling product that may have a temperature of 32-36 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Packing finished bags into boxes in a timely manner so as not to hold-up the pace of the packaging machine.
- Lifting bags of finished product (up to 35 lbs.) during the duration of the shift.
- Making boxes by lifting the corrugated strips and folding them into a box.
- Counting and keeping track of product dumped into the hoppers.
- Safely operating hoists, dryers, and dumping machines.
- Transferring filled baskets of product in and out of dryers.
- Pushing the finished goods through the tape machine.
- Loading finished boxes onto the pallets, stacking the boxes from floor level to above head level.
- Performing other duties (such as basic housekeeping) as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
