Repack Team Member

Repackaging/Variety Food Packaging Team Member

Shearer's Foods, founded in 1974 and headquartered in Massillon, OH, is a leading manufacturer of salty snacks, cookies, and crackers. With a strong focus on innovation, service, quality, and sustainability, Shearer's has been awarded the food industry's highest award for environmental sustainability, as well as multiple Supplier of the Year awards. The company mission is to deliver exceptional products and services that make snacking a time to celebrate for our customers, colleagues, and community. At Shearer's Foods, we believe in a skills-first approach to recruitment and employment. This means focusing on what you can do and how you can grow, rather than traditional metrics alone. We are committed to adhering to anti-exclusion practices, removing barriers to access, and enhancing opportunities for all individuals based on merit and potential.

Responsibilities:

• Operates, packs and maintains a single packaging cell used to package snack foods.
• Works well with others within a dynamic, collaborative team environment.
• Performs essential work activities and ensures safety and quality in a fast-paced manufacturing and warehouse environment.
• Safely operates and maintains packaging equipment.
• Ensures that products are produced in accordance with quality specifications.
• Inspects and monitors the machine before, during, and after the production process.
• Reads production schedule to determine quantities and types of products to be packaged and adjusts packaging rates accordingly.
• Regulates machine flow, speed, and/or temperature through adjustments of machine components, tensions, and pressure as needed.
• Completes all quality testing on the machine (i.e. code date verification, metal detector checks, seal checks).
• Keeps key components of packaging equipment clean. Inspects for defects, fixes minor defects, and reports defects to the Packaging Machine Coordinator when assistance is needed.
• Reports and/or takes any necessary action to prevent food safety and food quality problems from occurring.
• Legibly fills out required forms and paperwork.
• Monitors and troubleshoots packaging machines.
• Ensures all safety devices are operating properly.
• Inspects verifies and adjusts product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
• Observes machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of packaged products to standards.
• Monitors the production line, watching for problems such as pileups, jams, or glue that isn't sticking properly.
• Inspects and removes defective products and packaging material.
• Listens for malfunction indicators.
• Shuts down machines when malfunctions occur.
• Clears machine jams.
• Cleans to inspect, finding defects.
• Troubleshoots the cause(s) of poor-quality products, improper weights (high or low), unacceptable finished package appearance, and machine breakdowns.
• Ensures packaging equipment is running at documented centerlines as the initial step of troubleshooting.
• Sets up, starts, and shuts down packaging equipment.
• Prepares, cleans, and maintains the workplace.
• Effectively communicates instructions to fellow teammates, including but not limited to: Packaging Machine Coordinators, other Packer Operators, Packers, and/or Processors.
• Follows Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's) and Food Safety.

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years in food manufacturing/packaging experience is preferred.
• Bag/box manual packing experience is a plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.