Production Packer- Nights

Amcor•Louisville, KY

About The Position

The Packer works directly with product packaging and movement by packing bottles into boxes and moving full boxes or totes to pallets or skids. The role includes inspecting product, performing dimensional quality checks, supporting raw and finished product movement, and maintaining food safety and housekeeping standards. It requires repeated lifting of up to 35 pounds, including lifting bottles overhead to a height of six feet, and the ability to walk or stand for 12 hours per day. The position follows an assigned 12-hour schedule that rotates between two days on, two days off, three days on, and two days off. Flexibility for occasional overtime and call-in work is required. The Packer reports directly to the Shift Supervisor for scheduling, performance evaluation, and compensation assessment, and indirectly to the Department Manager for product and quality requirements and departmental goals, and to a Technician for day-to-day direction. Required personal protective equipment includes hearing protection, safety glasses, steel-toed shoes, and a hairnet; a beardnet is required when chin hair is greater than 1/8 inch.

Requirements

Ability to lift 35 pounds repeatedly throughout the shift and lift 35 pounds overhead to a total height of six feet.
Ability to walk and/or stand for 12 hours per day.
Manual dexterity to quickly move hands and arms to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Ability to arrange things or actions according to a specified order or pattern.
Near vision sufficient to see details at close range.
Ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with the body, arms, and/or legs.
Ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements with the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Ability to coordinate two or more limbs while sitting, standing, or lying down.
Use required personal protective equipment: hearing protection, safety glasses (prescription if required), steel-toed shoes, and a hairnet; beardnet if chin hair is greater than 1/8 inch.
Flexibility for occasional overtime and call-in work.

Responsibilities

Provide visual and aesthetic inspection of product.
Pack bottles into boxes.
Move full cartons of bottles onto pallets or skids.
Lift totes of bottles into gaylords and ensure each gaylord contains the correct number of bottles.
Conduct dimensional quality checks as directed.
Move packaged product into boxes and/or onto pallets using the proper skid pattern.
Empty trash cans at the end of the shift.
Provide direct support for raw and finished product movement.
Perform general housekeeping duties for the assigned area.
Make boxes as necessary.
Move finished product from the line to the staging area using a pallet jack.
Maintain the Food Safety Program (GMP).
Perform other duties as assigned.
Communicate deviations from requirements to management.
Report safety concerns to management and shut down equipment that presents a safety hazard.
Identify nonconforming product, segregate it into appropriate containment bins, and make personnel aware of the nonconformance for further action.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans.
Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees; may vary by location.
Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year; may vary by location.
Wellbeing programs and Employee Assistance Program.
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account.
Life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, and voluntary benefits.
Paid Parental Leave.
Retirement Savings Plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement, subject to approval.
Discretionary bonus program, with initial eligibility dependent upon hire date.