About This Role
This factory process worker role involves loading and packing finished products, handling raw materials, and assisting with general warehouse duties. The position requires physical fitness and a high sense of urgency, suitable for someone willing to work various shifts and weekends.
Responsibilities
- Pack bags of finished product to correct weights and targets
- Stack packaging safely on pallets ready for export
- Keep accurate records of packed finished goods and identify problems or QC production records
- Tray and/or pack raw dehydrated foods
- Batch bags of raw materials to correct weights and targets
- Stack batched product safely on pallets ready for production
- Load raw materials to prepare for production
- Keep accurate records of batched raw materials and identify problems or QC production records
- Produce raw dehydrated foods and provide backup for extrusion
- Adhere to Plant Health & Safety requirements
- Complete any other tasks as reasonably required
- Help with inward goods: truck/container unloading, checking, inspecting, and reporting of goods received, ensuring accurate quantity, type, and acceptable quality
- Unload, label, and store safely
- Help check the forklift at the beginning of every shift, maintain the forklift by completing preventative maintenance requirements, and arrange repairs through management
- Help check for stock levels and complete cycle counts as directed
- Select space for storage and arrange for products to be placed in designated areas to optimize space utilization
- Store all stock and product away safely, including rubbish inside and outside, and pallets
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment by keeping shelves, racking, pallet area, and workstations clean, tidy, and rubbish-free, maintaining a clean shipping supply area, in compliance with rules and regulations
- Use mechanical handling equipment with care when moving around the worksite
- Move raw materials, packaging, and finished product through the warehouse from receipt to truck/container
- Assist on an ad hoc basis in other departments, such as batching and packing
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results
- Maintain quality service by following workplace standards
- Ensure all rubbish and recyclables are in the correct bins at the end of your shift the day before Tuesday/Thursday rubbish/recycling days
- Discuss options with your supervisor if you have no work to complete
- Utilize proper safety techniques when handling a variety of materials and equipment
- Take all precautionary measures to prevent serious accidents
- Handle hazardous and sensitive materials according to established procedures
- Ensure all doors and windows are locked, and lights and electrical equipment are turned off in the Warehouse, Packaging Room, exterior doors, and yard gate at the Warehouse end if you are the last person on your shift for the day
Requirements
- Pick/packing experience
- Experience in lifting products up to 25 kgs
- High numeracy and literacy
- High accuracy
- High sense of urgency
- Physically fit
- Able to follow instructions
Important Details
- Schedule: willing to work morning, mid shift, night shift and weekends
About the Company
This company operates a factory in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
