About the Role
Responsible for maintaining cleanliness throughout the refinery and packaging areas, and returning scrap product to the raw materials shed. This entry-level position offers a starting rate of $25.96/hour, with opportunities to bid into other manufacturing positions starting at $36.65/hour after the probationary period.
Responsibilities
- Maintain cleanliness of packaging and process building floors and equipment.
- Remove dust from process areas.
- Clean food contact and non-food contact equipment, structural parts using specific procedures.
- Lift, cut, and empty scrap sugar bags (up to 20 kg, or 40 kg with a team lift).
- Maneuver large buggies full of reject sugar.
- Operate manual hand trucks with a full load of sugar.
- Mop large floor areas.
- Operate floor washer to clean large floor areas.
- Perform all responsibilities following established GMP Standards, Food Safety, and Health & Safety policies and procedures.
- Keep Sanitation Supervisor informed of any unsanitary practices.
- Follow sanitation procedures.
- Track and record information required for the sanitation department.
- Perform cleaning assignments as scheduled and other related assignments.
- Assist and train other associates as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- High School or equivalent education.
- Able to follow simple instructions.
- Able to carry out routine but varied tasks.
- Able to operate packaging machinery, powered hand trucks and equipment.
- Able to apply proper cleaning procedures.
- One year of work in a manufacturing or industrial environment is an asset.
- Knowledge of dry/wet cleaning process and chemical functionality.
- Understanding of WHMIS & adheres to all safety and good manufacturing practices.
- Work well in a team.
- Work in a safe and conscientious manner and independently with minimum supervision.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment where attention to detail and effective multi-tasking is essential.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Proven experience as a manufacturing machine operator.
- Manufacturing or industrial environment working: 1 year (Preferred).
- Regular periods during which there is continuous physical exertion required.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 20 kg.
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, reach and climb stairs.
- Ability to see and handle product, machinery, and hand tools.
- Regularly exposed to allergens such as peanuts, tree nuts, sulfites, soya, dairy, egg, gluten and sesame.
- Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions including slippery floors.
- May be exposed to equipment and processing mediums exceeding several hundred degrees Fahrenheit and noise levels exceeding 85 decibels.
- Employee may be required to handle chemicals that require PPE to be worn including respiratory PPE.
- Job applicants must already be legally eligible to work for Redpath Sugar Ltd. in a full-time permanent role.
- The company does not provide immigration sponsorship or support for this role.
Skills
- Operating packaging machinery
- Operating powered hand trucks
- Operating equipment
- Applying proper cleaning procedures
- WHMIS knowledge
- Safety adherence
- Good manufacturing practices adherence
- Teamwork
- Independent work
- Attention to detail
- Effective multi-tasking
- Oral communication
- Written communication
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- 1 year preferred
Education Level
- High School or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $25.96/hour
- Shift premiums
- Overtime
About the Company
- Redpath Sugar is located on Toronto’s historic downtown waterfront and has been a part of Canada’s heritage for more than 160 years.
- Our brand is the oldest food-related trademark in Canada and is recognized across the country.
- Redpath Sugar is part of ASR Group, the largest cane sugar refiner in the world.
- For more than 100 years, our employees have taken pride in “Making Life a Little Sweeter” by providing our customers and consumers with quality service and sugar products.
- Our commitment to that principle drives us in all that we do and encourages us to uphold our company’s high ethical standards of business conduct to ensure our continued success.
