Palletizer Operator

Role and Activity

Safety:
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 manner 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.

• General:
  • Become proficient in multiple skill areas and annually refresh your operational skill sets.
  • Support hiring process by mentoring and onboarding 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.
• Hardener Operation:
  • Understand basic hardener operations.
  • Operate the hardeners under normal and product evacuation conditions.
• Bundling:
  • 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.
• Palletizing:
  • Understand the appropriate pallet pattern by product.
  • Palletize using manual, 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.
• Input Operator:
  • 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.
• Currie Auto Palletizer:
  • 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.
• Shipping Coordinator:
  • Communicate pick-ups and deliveries with carriers/customers.
  • Communicate with warehouses and logistics for order changes and 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.

• General:
  • 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.
• Environmental Cleaning:
  • 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…