Packer

Job Description

Position Title                                                                                                   

Packer

Department

RHB/SBM

Position Summary

To work directly with product packaging and movement by packing bottles into boxes and/or moving full boxes/totes to pallet or skid.  Requires the ability to lift 35 pounds repeatedly throughout the shift.

Essential Functions

• Provide visual and aesthetic inspection of product
• Pack bottles into boxes
• Move full cartons of bottles onto pallets or skids
• Lift totes of bottles into gaylords to ensure that the gaylord has the correct number of bottles.
• Conduct dimensional quality checks as directed
• Move packaged product into boxes and or/onto pallets using the proper skid pattern
• Empty trash cans at end of shift
• Provide direct support for product movement (raw and finished)
• Provide general housekeeping duties for assigned area
• Make boxes, as necessary
• Move finished product from line to staging area using pallet jack.
• Responsible for maintaining the Food Safety Program (GMP)
• Other duties as assigned

Qualification Requirements

• Manual Dexterity -- The ability to quickly move hand, hand together with arm, or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Extent Flexibility -- The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Wrist-Finger Speed -- The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
•       Multilimb Coordination -- The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down.  It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body              is in motion.
• Lifting Requirements -- Ability to lift 35 pounds over head to total height of six feet.
• Walking/Standing---Requirements ability to walk and or stand for 12 hours per day.

PPE Required – Requirements are proper hearing protection, safety glasses (prescription if required), steel-toed shoes, hairnet, beardnet (if employee has chin hair greater than 1/8 inch). 

Authorities:

·                     Perform essential functions and assigned duties while communicating any deviations from the requirements to management

·                     Report any safety concerns to management and to shut down any equipment that presents a safety hazard

·                     Identify nonconforming product and segregate into appropriate containment bins so as to not become part of the finished product. This includes making the personnel aware of this nonconformance for further action

Position Hours

• Assigned 12-hour schedule
• Schedule rotates as follows: two days on, two days off, three days on, two days off, etc.
• Flexibility for occasional overtime and call-in work required

Organization Relationships

• Report directly to Shift Supervisor for purposes of scheduling, performance evaluation, and compensation assessment
• Indirectly reports to Department Manager for product requirements, quality requirements, and overall departmental goals;
• Indirectly reports to Technician for direction of day-to-day responsibilities

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

To learn more about playing for Team Amcor, visit www.amcor.com I LinkedIn I Glassdoor I Facebook  I YouTube

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Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees, may vary by location

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)