Inspector Packer

Altor Solutions•Saint Petersburg, FL

About The Position

The Inspector Packer performs production, inspection, and packing tasks for Altor Solutions’ products, ensuring that finished products meet company quality standards. The role follows established safety, housekeeping, quality, and production procedures and reports concerns to the appropriate personnel, including Quality, the Set Up Technician, and the Production Supervisor. The position includes removing products from conveyor belts, inspecting and packing them, sealing and labeling packages, moving completed packages for pallet loading, completing production and quality documentation, and entering information into the ERP system. The employee may operate production-line equipment, assist with material handling, and support coworkers. The role requires working efficiently and repetitively, maintaining a clean work area, following training guidelines, wearing required PPE, and working assigned shifts, including overtime and after-hours meetings as needed.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Three to six months of manufacturing experience preferred.
Ability to read, write, and understand basic math.
Ability to pack and inspect up to 60 parts per minute.
Ability to lift up to 40 pounds; the physical-demands section also describes occasional pushing or pulling of up to 50 pounds.
Ability to read production tags and labels, inspect parts, and identify defects using close vision.
Ability to work efficiently and repetitively with hands, with the physical strength, stamina, coordination, and manual dexterity needed for the duties.
Ability to work with, in, and near machinery and to use hand tools.
Ability to wear required PPE, including hearing protection, safety glasses, steel- or composite-toe shoes, and gloves as applicable to assignments.
Ability to work assigned shifts, including overtime, and attend after-hours meetings as needed.
Ability to communicate production, quality, housekeeping, and safety issues to coworkers and leadership.
Demonstrated accountability, innovation, integrity, adaptability, caring, and passion, including the competencies described for those core values.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent.
Three to six months of experience in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Remove products from conveyor belts and place them in drying racks, boxes, or bags.
Pack products and use heavy-duty tape machines to wrap them for storage or delivery.
Lift and move completed boxes or bags to designated locations, wagons, or pallets.
Read and follow job assignments, product descriptions, and packing instructions on Quality/Production Data sheets.
Complete Operator Production/Quality Reports, packing reports, worksheets, and special customer inspection forms when required.
Perform visual inspections and use measuring devices such as scales, steel rules, and calipers to verify product quality; report and document discrepancies.
Inventory tape, labels, bags, boxes, and drying racks, and notify the Material Handler when supplies are needed.
Observe machine operations for product defects and report problems to the Supervisor.
Follow company policies and procedures and promptly report production, quality, or safety concerns.
Maintain a neat, clean, and organized workstation and assigned areas or equipment.
Notify the Supervisor when needing to leave the machine during a shift.
Assist with material handling and, when needed, help coworkers with less experience in the position.
Verify product quality specifications and ensure assigned production lines meet packaging, quality, product, and daily production-goal standards.
Operate production-line equipment to inspect, pack, or count products manually or automatically, as assigned.
Seal and label packages correctly and move them for loading onto a pallet.
Enter data accurately in the ERP system.
Start and stop pressing equipment, locate the emergency button, and understand lockout/tagout policy.
Distinguish good prints, print rejects, set-up rejects, and manufacturer rejects, and accurately calculate rejects to account for containers assigned to the production order.
Identify foam specifications and distinguish among box/case, WIP, reject, and partial-carton labels, including their proper placement.
Wear PPE in accordance with company standards and follow plant training guidelines.
Work assigned shifts, including overtime and after-hours meetings as needed, and communicate safety, housekeeping, quality, and production issues to coworkers and leaders.
Perform other duties as assigned.