Perricone Farms, a leading citrus juice supplier located in Beaumont, CA, is seeking a Packaging Lead to join our team. This is fast-paced position which offers long-term, consistent employment with a competitive benefits package, including but not limited to Health, Vision, Dental, Life and 401K.

Pay Rate : $19 per hour Differential

• 6 Days Per Week (Sundays Off)
• Holiday work may be required based on production needs

Shift / Hours:

• 2nd shift: 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm ($19 per hour $1 Differential)
• 3rd shift: 11:00 pm to 7:30 am ($19 per hour $2 Differential)

Packaging Lead assists and directs the smooth flow of Packaging/Bottling by performing the following duties:

• Conduct Safety Inspections of work area and equipment ensuring all employees are following the Safety Rules and wearing proper PPE
• Conduct Food Safety Inspections of work area, equipment, and raw materials ensuring all employees are following GMPs and SOPs
• Assist in leading the daily Toolbox (Huddle) meeting with the team
• Ensure beverage line manufacturing equipment and people are set up to start bottle filling on time
• Allocate resources on their packaging line for maximum efficiency
• Be on the floor 100% of the time. Fill in for breaks, absent team members, and staffing gaps
• Monitor and report attendance, and meal/break period violations to manager/supervisor
• Cross train team members on equipment per training plan
• Develop high potential Operators to be future Leads
• Collect and report performance data as directed (e.g. waste, throughput, downtime, efficiency)
• Report in a clear and detailed manner safety or quality issues or incidents, and equipment failures to the Supervisor
• Perform the necessary operations in ERP (i.e. BatchMaster)
• Perform essential duties as supervisor in supervisor’s absence
• Any other duties as assigned

DRUG FREE WORKPLACE

Food Safety Requirements/Responsibilities:

• Comply with all Plant, State and Federal OSHA, EPA, FDA, HACCP, and SQF regulations
• Assist in the maintenance of Food Safety and Quality system
• Responsible for Non-GMO SGS Supply Chain Standards

Organizational Relationships:

Position will report to Production Manager

No Direct reports

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a food/beverage manufacturing environment is desirable.
• Have effective interpersonal skills.
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, time management and problem-solving skills.
• Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
• Spanish is a plus.
• Computer Skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

Indoor primarily with some outdoor activity. Typically, quiet in the office while noisy on the production floor.

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions as associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.