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About the Role
As a Packaging Team Member at Winland Foods, you will operate, monitor, and maintain packaging equipment, ensuring products are packaged safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. This role is crucial for ensuring products meet quality standards and directly impacts the food experiences delivered to consumers.
Responsibilities
- Operate basic packaging machinery including depalletizers, palletizers, conveyors, and forklifts.
- Complete equipment changeovers and address operational issues promptly.
- Use technical skills in SAP, IQS, MII, and Weaver to maintain packaging flow.
- Perform routine operation checks, daily inspections, preventive maintenance, and equipment changeovers.
- Ensure proper sanitation after changeovers.
- Execute advanced troubleshooting, pre-inspection checks, and complex changeovers.
- Monitor and optimize line performance.
- Oversee assigned production lines, ensuring correct equipment setup, adequate staffing, and organized materials.
- Collaborate with Maintenance to ensure equipment functionality.
- Inspect products for correct labeling, alignment, and packaging.
- Perform manual packing and palletizing.
- Follow FIFO inventory methods, manage materials, and record shipments in SAP.
- Conduct quality checks on products and packaging.
- Verify weight control, material accuracy, and product quality at multiple checkpoints.
- Minimize downtime and defects by leading the team in Centerlining and monitoring line performance.
- Make real-time adjustments to prevent defects.
- Enforce quality checks on all line outputs, ensure compliance with GMP, HACCP, and food safety standards, and maintain accurate documentation.
- Follow GMP, HACCP, SQF, FSMA, and company food safety policies.
- Maintain cleanliness and sanitation.
- Maintain compliance documentation and complete sanitation steps during changeovers.
- Lead FSQ compliance in assigned area.
- Mentor team on food safety and enforce sanitation accountability.
- Enforce compliance for assigned lines, ensuring safety and sanitation practices are upheld, waste is removed promptly, and facility standards are maintained.
- Assist team members, adapt to operational changes, and contribute to productivity, safety, and quality goals.
- Provide backup coverage for multiple roles, share knowledge with peers, and support training.
- Coordinate team activities, assign tasks, lead shift meetings, and train others in advanced operations.
- Direct changeovers, organize team activities, identify skill gaps, provide feedback, and support training programs in assigned areas.
- Accurately complete basic production paperwork and report issues to supervisors.
- Record inventory transactions, shipments, and quality results in SAP.
- Participate in 5S efforts.
- Assist in reviewing production paperwork.
- Work with supervisors and team to develop solutions to issues.
- Act as 5S champion for area.
- Lead improvement projects, perform operator-based maintenance, and analyze downtime causes.
- Maintain thorough and accurate documentation for all production activities.
- Monitor performance metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and assist in implementing effective processes.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Minimum 1 year of work experience, preferably in manufacturing or food production.
- Forklift certification preferred (required for Advanced Level); willingness to obtain certification if not already held.
- 18+ years of age.
- Ability to operate, troubleshoot, and perform minor repairs on production line equipment, including cartoners, baggers, case packers, sealers, depalletizers, and and palletizers.
- Perform Winland Excellence CIL, centerlining, and line huddle activities to improve efficiency.
- Mechanical aptitude with the ability to identify and resolve equipment irregularities.
- Proficiency in SAP, hand scanners, and basic math skills.
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Knowledge of GMPs, SQF, HACCP, FSMA, and other food safety regulations.
- Commitment to following all company safety policies and procedures.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs, push heavy loads, stand/walk up to 90% of shift, and climb as needed.
- Must have near and far visual acuity, some color perception, and full range of hand/arm movement.
- Ability to effectively communicate with co-workers, supervisors and others at the worksite regarding work matters.
- Work independently and collaboratively in a team environment, with a team-first mindset.
- Positive attitude, dependable, self-motivated, and willing to work overtime or weekends as needed.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to multitask, and flexibility to adapt to changing needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated accountability for work quality, attendance, and continuous improvement.
- Employees must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time.
- Tasks may involve frequent climbing, pulling, pushing, carrying, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning, and stooping.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs frequently.
- Must have good hand-eye coordination, motor skills, and 20/20 corrected vision.
- Must have normal hearing and vision (with correction if needed), including the ability to distinguish colors for color-coded containers in production areas.
- Employees must wear all required PPE according to the specific manufacturing environment.
- Must adhere to all safety policies, including lock-out/tag-out, safe lifting techniques, and others as instructed.
- Exposure to wet, humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high areas, fumes, airborne particles, extreme temperatures, electrical risks, and vibrations depending on the area assigned.
- Must maintain a clean and safe work environment and report any food safety or quality issues immediately to management.
Skills
- SAP
- IQS
- MII
- Weaver
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Troubleshooting
- Preventive maintenance
- Sanitation
- Quality control
- Inventory management
- Food safety compliance
- Team collaboration
- Leadership
- Training
- Documentation
- Communication
- Continuous improvement
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
- Flexibility
- Accountability
Location
- NY Medina
Work Type
- Full time
- 3rd Shift: 10:00pm - 6:30am Monday through Friday (OT as Needed)
Experience Level
- Minimum 1 year of work experience
- Advanced levels require proficiency in MII, WE systems, and interpreting line huddle measures to resolve issues.
- Advanced levels lead projects, identify skill gaps, and support multiple initiatives with minimal supervision.
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
Salary/Compensations
- $25.00 per hour plus $1.00 Shift Differential
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) with match
- STD/LTD/AD&D/Life
- HSA
- FSA
- EAP
- Hospital indemnity
- Accident Insurance
- Identity and Fraud Protection Plan
- Legal
- Critical Illness
About the Company
- At Winland Foods, our success starts with people who live our values of Excellence, Quality, Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration every day.
- By upholding our commitment to excellence, you’ll play a vital role in making mealtime easier, safer, and more enjoyable for families everywhere.
Equal Opportunity
- Winland Foods seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool, and as a global company we believe our success is enhanced by fostering equity and inclusion in the workplace. Therefore, Winland Foods is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.