Quality Production Specialist (1st Shift)

Melaleuca, Inc.•Knoxville, TN

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Our Quality Production Specialists are passionate about bringing our products to life for our customers. Melaleuca relentlessly strives to improve processes and increase efficiencies. Our Quality Production Specialists play a critical role in our accomplishing these objectives by eliminating problems on the production floor and working diligently and efficiently. As a Quality Production Specialist you would be working directly with various equipment to produce products as well as manual processes such as filling, labeling, auditing, packing, and shipping products for our customers.

Requirements

Ability to work independently
Written and verbal communication skills
Ability to lift a minimum of 65 lbs. Must be able to lift boxes/totes from the floor, to a pallet or onto the Product Delivery line
Standing and walking for duration of 8-hour shift; ability to climb stairs
Pulling, stretching, bending, and lifting for duration of shift
Ability to organize and coordinate projects
Manual dexterity for such duties as collating, sorting, filling, toting, etc.
Ability to read, write and perform basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc.)
Work overtime as needed

Responsibilities

Sets-up work area by retrieving production components (i.e., bottles, caps, pallets, products, rags, totes, etc.) and by sterilizing the tables and equipment, code dating individual bottles, etc.
Uses personnel protective equipment where required.
Fills bottles by operating filling machinery, or using manual process.
Works at assigned Filling machine to produce finished product.
Caps bottles by manually applying caps, operating a crimper, operating an air press machine, etc.
Labels specified products by applying the label in appropriate location.
Prepares pallets by filling totes, labeling totes with required information, loading pallets, moving pallets with pallet jacks to the correct area, etc.
Lifts finished product in totes onto pallets, onto a table or onto a shelf.
Performs clean-up duties by washing equipment, sweeping & mopping the floors, emptying the garbage, wiping down workstations with IPA and buckets, etc.
Sets-up and operates the sealer by plugging in machinery, monitoring temperature to prevent explosions, capping bottles, washing bottles, boxing products, labeling boxes, etc.
Inspects quality of own work for cleanliness, label placement, lids tight, correct batch numbers, etc.
Assists in training other associates as needed by demonstrating tasks, answering questions, etc.
Monitors quality by wiping excess product from containers, checking silk-screened labels, count on boxes, stacking of pallets, and by verifying that labels are correctly placed.
Completes personal reports by recording information (i.e., individual performance, batch sheets, cleaning logs, labeling, amounts, OTC product forms, component returns sheet to warehouse, etc.).
Assists in machine tear down, cleaning and set-up, etc.

Benefits

Longevity Bonus (5 Yrs/$5000, 10 Yrs/$10,000, 15 Yrs/$15,000, etc.)
Company Profit Sharing (After 6 months of full-time employment)
First Pay Review After 6 Months
Medical, Dental/Orthodontia, Vision
401(k) with a company match
Free Life Insurance
Potential to earn $60 Safety Bonus quarterly
$90/month of Free Company Products ($1,080/year)
Company-Sponsored Employee Appreciation Events (Employee Family Picnic, Christmas Party, etc.)
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Clean, Indoor, Climate-Controlled Environment
Opportunities to Promote
No Layoffs
Safe, Natural Product Line