Palletizer Operator

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream•Fort Wayne, IN

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Palletizer Operator role involves a comprehensive set of activities focused on safety, quality, and operational efficiency within a plant environment. Key responsibilities include complying with safety policies, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and HACCP programs, as well as actively participating in quality control and error prevention. The operator is expected to communicate effectively, participate in team activities, and maintain attendance standards. Operationally, the role requires proficiency in multiple skill areas, including hardener operation, bundling, manual, semi-automatic, and automatic palletizing, input operator tasks (SKU identification, IMREX/Panel View transactions, ASRS support), and Currie Auto Palletizer programming and monitoring. Additionally, the operator may act as a Shipping Coordinator, managing communications with carriers/customers, updating orders, and maintaining inventory levels. Sanitation duties involve understanding and executing safe and effective cleaning methods for equipment and maintaining an "inspection ready" work area. The position emphasizes continuous improvement, adherence to production targets, health and safety, and impeccable hygiene standards, all while embodying core values of ownership, integrity, improvement, and teamwork.

Requirements

18 years of age or older
Aptitude for automated mechanical processes with good troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
Excellent interpersonal communication, math and problem solving
Ability to work multiple shifts and/or schedules
High School diploma or GED or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

One-year related experience

Responsibilities

Comply with all company safety policies and procedures.
Take an active role to insure that personal safety and the safety of others is never compromised.
Comply with the Good Manufacturing Practices as outlined by the plant quality department.
Complete and document all food safety checks as required by the plant HACCP program.
Complete and document all product quality checks as required by the plant MCP program.
Actively participate in preventing and correcting quality related errors.
Communicate and interact with others in a manor consistent with the company’s management philosophy, the “Grooves”.
Actively participate in team meetings, committees and task forces.
Comply with the plant’s attendance and other policies to maintain a corrective action free status.
Become proficient in multiple skill areas and annually refresh your operational skill sets.
Support hiring process by mentoring and on-boarding new team members.
Lead and encourage problem solving within the Business Unit and Functional Team.
Communicate and follow-up on daily information.
Be willing to learn and to train a variety of skills.
Complete all required documentation in each area to support the plant inventory control, quality assurance, line reliability, damage reduction, and cost tracking systems.
Understand basic hardener operations.
Operate the hardeners under normal and product evacuation conditions.
Load and operate multiple bundlers (wrappers).
Make minor adjustments to equipment settings to insure quality wrap.
Insure that the proper materials and quantities have been staged for use.
Understand the appropriate pallet pattern by product.
Palletize using manual and semi-automatic and automatic palletizing stations.
Load and operate the stretch wrapping equipment.
Insure that product is properly palletized and ready for storage and distribution.
Identify product SKU’s for palletizing station assignments.
Complete all required IMREX and Panel View transactions and reports.
Understand shuttle car and ASRS operations and correct errors as needed.
Support ASRS inventory process as needed (usually done quarterly).
Insure that palletized product is ready for storage.
Understand basic Currie operations.
Program Daily SKU’s.
Know and understand correct procedure for releasing lanes.
Identify all aspects of Currie equipment performance and communicate with other operators and maintenance.
Insure the quality of all products prior to and immediately following the Currie.
Manage reject line to ensure product does not spoil.
Communicate pick-ups and deliveries with carriers/ customers.
Communication with warehouses and logistics for order changes updates.
Enter and release orders in CC Software system.
Maintain inventory levels for west-coast warehouses.
Lab 48 hour hold and reject products.
Ship and confirm orders in IMREX system daily.
Maintain pallet program and pallet reconciliation by carrier.
Understand the safest and most effective cleaning methods used in the hardening, bundling and palletizing areas.
Conduct basic sanitation preventive maintenance as required.
Follow the proper cleaning procedure for each piece of equipment used in the hardening, bundling and palletizing.
Maintain work area in an “inspection ready” condition at all times.
Follow the proper cleaning procedure for non-product contact surfaces and equipment.
Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.
Hygiene, GMP and safety audits improving week after week.
Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met.
Effective interaction with the team and takes direction from Machine Operator and Management.
Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented and maintained.
De-kitting the line.
Quality and technical system adherence.
Completion of the required production to plan.
Health and Safety.
Impeccable hygiene standards always.
Clean as you go; use proper cleaning techniques (e. limited water hose usage).
Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish.
Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail.
Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or reduce waste.
Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations.
Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment.
Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies.
Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations.
Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we can improve.
Learn from both successes and failures.
Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business.
Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives.
Treat everyone with fairness and respect.