WAV Bulk Packaging Attendant (General Labor)

The Bulk Packaging Attendant (General Labor) role performs a variety of duties to include packaging the cheese, ensuring packaging quality, rework, and sanitation. This is an entry level position and individuals must be willing and able to learn various operator roles in the Waverly facility for career advancement.

In addition to working our packaging line, this position plays a key role in our sanitary procedures. This includes donning full-body protective equipment (PPE) and spraying machinery and equipment with a hot sanitizer. Employees in this role must be capable of withstanding high heat and humidity.

Schedule:

• Leprino Foods is a 24/7 operating facility, and the employee must be willing and able to work days or nights. The current vacancy is on night shift, from 6:00pm-6:30am. Our schedules run 12 hours on a 2-2-3 rotation that allows for every other weekend off.
• After training is complete, new hires will be assigned a regular schedule on the next available shift.

Pay Rate:

• $22.55 per hour
• $0.75 Evening Pay Differential for every evening hour worked between 6:00pm-6:00am
• $1.00 Weekend Pay Differential for every hour worked Saturday & Sunday

Responsibilities:

• Inspect final cheese ribbon for product quality and report issues to team lead, supervisor, or manager as applicable.
• Package the cheese ribbon into a Bulk Tote and operate a sealer machine to seal the bags.
• Properly clean and sanitize all equipment following good manufacturing practices as required by company policies and procedures, while maintaining good housekeeping within the Bulk Packaging area.
• Utilize Manufacturing Execution System (MES) on the computer to generate labels and track products.
• Document all lot numbers and pallets, numbers of bags, boxes, and liners, utilized during the Shift and consolidate at the end of the Production Run.
• Add slip sheets/inter-leaver sheets in-between layers of cheese in tote.
• Fold bags into boxes so none is exposed when the box is closed.
• Maintain a stock of boxes on the packaging line and inspect packaging materials for defects and report issues to the team lead, supervisors, or manager as applicable.
• Observe proper safety policies and procedures at all times.
• Perform the duties of this position per established Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s).
• Other duties as assigned<