About the Role
Assist all NY LiDestri facilities with training and staffing needs due to proficiency in a majority of the operation aspects.
Responsibilities
- Familiar with the majority of production equipment and processes.
- Ensure all products exiting production line meet customer and product requirements.
- Validate correct materials are being utilized.
- Adhere to all quality standards and policies.
- Ensure finished product is transported/loaded correctly.
- Identify noticeable defects in incoming & outgoing products.
- Cross train or train on equipment as defined by manager.
- Be flexible in availability to work various shifts and/or facilities.
- Work in a safe manner, consistent with company safety rules and regulations.
- Report food safety & quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.
Requirements
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment (bump cap, hair net, ear plugs, beard net (if applicable), Kevlar gloves, safety glasses and leather skid resistant work shoes/boots).
- Ability to apply basic computer and communication skills, math functions, and reasoning.
- Ability to use various hand tools (RF scanner guns, can openers, knifes and scales).
- May be required to travel between facilities.
- Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to long periods of standing/moving, working around moving mechanical parts/conveyors, loud environment, hot/cold, wet/dry conditions.
- Ability to lift/carry <50 pounds.
- Ability to perform frequent reaching/pulling/climbing stairs/stooping/kneeling/bending.
Skills
- Machine operation
- Quality Control
- Forklift operation
- Computer skills
- Communication skills
- Basic math functions
- Reasoning skills
- Use of hand tools
Location
- Rochester, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Extensive experience in a manufacturing facility
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Benefits
- Great career-pathing
- Professional development, including unlimited online training courses
- Health insurance with premium contributions
- Dental
- Vision
- HSA
- 100% company paid life insurance
- 100% company paid long-term disability
- 401k with employer match
- Paid time off (vacation, sick pay, wellness time off)
- 10 holidays
- Company bonuses
About the Company
- LiDestri Foods has grown from our roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and producing innovative food products for our national and retailer brand partners.
- A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs over 1,000 people across three U.S. locations.
- We have decades-long partnerships with some of the most respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and the most highly inventive retailer brands.
