Line Inspector

What if your job had a real impact? 

By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, the others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables. 

 

Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods®, Bistro®, Ready Snax®, Cool Cuts® and Bonduelle Fresh Picked™.

Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!

 

The line inspector is a key position within our manufacturing plants and supports our production team leads as they drive production to the highest safety, quality and efficiency standards. This position is exposed to multiple refrigerated areas within production. Position responsible for performing finished goods checks.

 

What you will Do:

• Follows GMP/PPE, Safety guidelines
• Follow & maintain HACCP & Sanitation guidelines & processes
• Understands yield standards
• Works safely around moving equipment & conveyors in wet environment
• Completes product change over tasks
• Weigh bowls using scales
• Scheduling Adherence
• Maintain a safe work environment
• Conducts the following checks (bowl label, code dates, lot verification, composition, gas, seal, temperature)
• Comply with SQF Regulatory Programs
• Maintains a clean work area
• Machine set-up and operation (computer, gas machine, fish tanks)
• Basic machine troubleshooting
• Conduct metal detector verifications
• Verifies product meets quality standards for size and color without having foreign objects or defects
• Perform equipment adjustments, equipment center lining, and pre-flight start up inspections.
• Four equipment related skills for operators: Ability to detect abnormalities, ability to correct abnormalities and restore functioning, ability to set optimum equipment conditions, ability to maintain optimal equipment conditions
• Audits production lines for USDA compliance
• Follow & enforce the 5S Methodology
• Maintain tools & equipment as delimited by the 5S marking

 

What you will Need:

• Ability to read, write and speak English; comprehension of basic math.
• Willingness and flexibility to work in a cold, wet, fast-paced, 24 hour plant environment.
• Comprehension of basic math
• Ability to work independently and in a fast paced team environment.
• GED/High School Diploma.
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to understand plant KPIs (production, quality & safety)
• Bonduelle Fresh Americas requires its employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation. If you are unable to provide proof of vaccination, you will be required to provide proof of a COVID test on a weekly basis.

 

Related Success Metrics:

• Performance efficiency, rework, OEE, Product Specification compliance
• FO, KPI, Quality Response, Consumer Complaints
• TCIR, LWCR
• Fill Rate, Labor & Yield Efficiencies

 

Desired Traits:

• Excellence- Making performance and quality our priorities.

• People-minded- ability to foster mutual respect and positive relationships with co-workers, and ensures physical safety of self and others.

• Integrity- honors commitments, acts honestly and with accountability.

 

Physical Work Environment / Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the associate will be required to perform repetitive movements (i.e., scooping condiments into salad bowls). The associate regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods.
• Ability to move about within a fast paced environment in/outside facility, and traverse between maintenance shop & production floor.
• Ability to position self to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Ability to frequently move, push, or carry ite