Frontline Coordinator - 1st shift

Title:  Frontline Coordinator

Department: Salad

Location: Jackson, GA

Shift:  1st shift

Reports to:  Production Manager

Position Summary:

The Frontline Coordinator assists the Team Lead with ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all job functions.

What if your job had a real impact? 

By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables. 

Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods® and Bistro®.

Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!

Bonduelle Fresh Americas is a Certified B Corp for a better life. Bonduelle chose B Corporation because of its comprehensive and rigorous standards and its ability to measure a company’s governance as well as worker, community, and environmental impact.We aim to make a positive impact on People, Planet and Food, as seen in our global B!Pact objectives. B Corp certification validates our positive impact and tells the world we are part of a community using business as a force for good.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitoring work of all associates according to their function and assists with training new hires and coordinates and manages associate breaks/lunches.
• Oversees timely and proper placement of items in inventories.
• Coordinate and communicate with production personnel regarding product availability, aging issues, and selective product usage.
• Verifies in transit numbers from the Transportation Department, investigates major discrepancies and reports to the Supervisor.
• Fill in for Team Lead and associates as needed.
• Communicate with the driver (in-house and outside carriers) and report and communicate with Dispatch on load status as needed.
• Complete required operational departmental forms. 
• Observe and ensure associates are selecting/picking/rotating according to schedule and reviews all paperwork to ensure that it has been filled out correctly.
• Assign work orders.
• Perform routine cycle counts.
• Responsible for following all GMP/PPE and Safety guidelines and  food safety and food quality programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of GMP’s & Safety Guidelines.
• Leadership experience.
• 2 years of forklift experience.
• Comprehension of basic math and  good computer skills.
• Team player and ability to multitask.
• Willingness to work in a cold environment.
• Able to work a flexible schedule & ability to work in a fast paced environment..
• Ability to understand plant KPI’s (production, quality & safety).
• Reading, Writing, Speaking English Preferred.
• GED/High School Diploma.

Physical Work Environment: 

While performing the duties of this job, this position entails use of ladders and catwalks to reach production equipment, regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme cold for extended periods of time. The associate frequently works in high, precarious places. The associate is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.