CoPacker (Material Handler)

Ken's Careers•Mcdonough, GA

About The Position

The Co Packer prepares finished products for packaging and shipment. Working in an assigned warehouse area, the associate retrieves inventory as needed to build displays and supports timely, high-quality, cost-effective logistics services while improving processes and meeting customer needs. The role involves operating around packaging machinery and moving conveyors, performing manual handling tasks, building and labeling display pallets, and maintaining a clean, orderly, and safe work area. The associate also follows food safety, security, and GMP policies and monitors products and work areas for contamination.

Requirements

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and communicate effectively with other employees and Team Leaders.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with 10s and 100s.
Ability to use common-sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions and handle standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
Ability to perform the physical demands of the role, including regularly lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
Ability to maintain alertness and work safely; use cognitive function and judgment; respond promptly and appropriately to operating conditions; concentrate; recall instructions; gauge time and distance; and cope with sudden changes, emergencies, or alarms.
Demonstrated caring, commitment, and concern for safety.
Vision abilities including distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Responsibilities

Understand machine operations and use safety precautions around pinch points, sealers, heaters, and moving conveyors.
Perform manual labor, including stacking, lifting, bending, building trays and flaps, and banding.
Build display pallets using finished goods on or from pallets, trays, racks, and shelves according to established designs.
Reprocess raw materials and packaging items for display builds.
Shrink-wrap and label finished display pallets with identifying information.
Sweep, dust, and mop work areas; keep the warehouse and work area orderly.
Ensure the work area is accessible and safe for salespeople and customer traffic.
Follow order fulfillment through completion to ensure orders are completed successfully and on time.
Ship products free of contamination and follow company security and GMP policies.
Report suspicious activities in or around the facility, leaking or spilled product, and possible product contamination issues.
Continuously inspect the work area for potential product contamination and inspect incoming and outgoing products for signs of contamination.
Perform other duties as assigned.