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Job Description
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Job Overview:
POSITION PURPOSE: |
To provide production operation duties to ensure:
- Continued safe operations for the facility’s packaging and palletization robotics system.
- Monitoring of robotic systems, ensuring product quality, maintaining packaging material availability, troubleshooting equipment issues, and supporting safe, efficient production.
- Proper and safe equipment operation in accordance with Plant Operation policies/procedures and OSHA safety rules and regulations
Duties include:
- Monitor product quality, packaging integrity, and labeling accuracy.
- Ensure robotic palletizing systems operate safely and correctly without damaging product or packaging.
- Verify proper stacking patterns, pallet routing, and discharge lane assignments.
- Maintain adequate packaging materials, including pallets, labels, boxes, trays, sleeves, and slip sheets.
- Monitor HMIs, sensors, barcode readers, and automated equipment for alarms, faults, and jams.
- Troubleshoot and adjust photo eyes, sensors, readers, and other automation components.
- Support line swaps, packaging changeovers, and product transitions.
- Monitor bale verification, sequence verification, sampling stations, and compressor systems.
- Maintain shift activity logs and provide effective shift handovers.
- Assist with scale checks, equipment maintenance, and packaging material management.
- Performing light maintenance, including but not limited to equipment cleaning, minor adjustments, interpretation of equipment errors/failures
- Reviewing P&IDs and SOPs;
- Computer input of quality alert information;
- Miscellaneous other duties as required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: |
- Work a 12-hour rotating shift
- Work overtime as needed
- Work in extreme conditions (temperature and humidity)
- Perform repetitive tasks
- Detect defects and errors
- Communicate clearly and accurately
- Work under pressure
- Read and comprehend job procedures
- Bending/Stooping - With activity in these positions
- Standing - Watching, holding, taking readings
- Squatting - With activity in these positions
- Walking during 12-hour shifts
- Ascending and descending stairs - varying pitches - frequently
- Emergency Response – Fire Brigade, HAZMAT, ERT
- Reaching - Above shoulder level or below - activity in these positions
- Pushing/Pulling- Weights up to 60 lbs. or more
- Lifting/Carrying - Weights up to 60 lbs. or more
- Hearing - Voice, mechanical, electronic
- Vision - Colors, mechanical motion, steam, vapor, fluids, reading
- Use of Hands - Operating valves, keyboards, lab tests, cleaning equipment.
- Sense of Smell - Chemicals, burning materials
- Mobility - able to perform a variety of tasks
- Climbing - Ladders, up and down
- Turning/Twisting - Able to pivot/turn/twist and perform function
- Protective Equipment - Able to wear proper safety equipment
- Driving (Forklifts, Pick-Up Trucks, Cars) with automatic and/or manual transmissions
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 2-years’ experience in an industrial, manufacturing or plant environment preferred
- Ability to work a 12-hour rotating shift and to work overtime as needed
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively across shifts.
- Demonstrated mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot mechanical and automation-related issues.
- Hands on with a strong attention to detail, safety, and product quality.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment physical and drug screen, fitness test, and background check
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Associate degree in Process Technology
- Minimum of 2 years post high school education
- Experience with automated manufacturing, robotics, packaging systems, or industrial equipment preferred.
