Packer

Reports to: Area Team Manager

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Mile Road

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

To pack off final products while abiding to the Food Safety and Quality procedures; thus ensuring a safe and legal product reaches the customer.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Understand and comply with all workplace health and safety requirements, company policies and procedures and general workplace rules
  • Participate in the day to day health and safety program by working in a safe manner at all times:
    • Always using the required personal protective equipment
    • Ensuring that authorized work is completed safely
    • Utilizing required controls to prevent risk of exposure to hazards
    • Participating actively in incident investigations, training, and other health and safety initiatives
  • Reporting all unsafe acts and conditions and all incidents, near misses and workplace injuries/illnesses as per company procedure
  • Understand production processes including set up and operation of plant machinery by following all packaging codes and that packed product is formatted with correct delivery codes, diagnose process and equipment faults to achieve maximum throughput and quality in line with daily production and quality specification targets.
  • Keep working areas clean and hygienic at all times.
  • Complete checkweigh and stitcher checks
  • Other duties as assigned

The areas of responsibilities contained within this job description is not exhaustive and an employee may be asked to do other duties in line with the needs of the business.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

  • Reliable
  • Target driven
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Experience of working in a process environment is advantageous
  • Keen and eager to learn and grow within the business
  • Able to solve problems using own initiative but willing to seek support if required
  • Able to look for more effective and efficient ways of doing things and bring new ideas to the business
  • Physically fit and capable to working across multiple floors and at height
  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • English language verbal and written

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