Label Fabricator - Bistro - 1st Shift

OFF SUN & Thurs 5:30am - 4pm

Position Summary:

This role is a key position within our manufacturing plants and supports our production team leads as they drive production to the highest safety, quality and efficiency standards by fully embracing the Company’s RCE philosophy.  This position operates and maintains the label applicator equipment and owns the quality of the label application process.  

Groupe Bonduelle is a company that is making a positive impact
Groupe Bonduelle is the world leader in ready-to-use plant-rich food. By joining our company you will have an opportunity to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission to inspire the transition toward a plant-rich diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health.

Groupe Bonduelle Fresh Americas is the U.S. business unit of France based Groupe Bonduelle (BON.PA). We are the first business unit of Groupe Bonduelle to become a Certified B Corporation. We operate three processing facilities throughout the U.S. and employ nearly 3,000 Associates who focus on producing and bringing to market fresh vegetable products, prepared salads and plant-rich meal solutions.

Groupe Bonduelle is a 170 year old French family-owned company that has been at the forefront of plant based food innovations since 1853. Our ready-to-use plant-rich food products are grown on 168,000 acres by our grower partners and marketed in nearly 100 countries. The company currently employees more than 11,000 Associates globally.

Join us at Bonduelle Fresh Americas for an opportunity to advance your career in a culture that places people first and makes contributing to a better future through plant-based food our top priority.

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:

• Follow good manufacturing practices (GMPs), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), SQF, and Safety guidelines.
• Verify date, lot code, plant code, are printed correctly on labels/cases every time labels are changed
• Follow and maintain HACCP, cleaning and Sanitation guidelines and processes.
• Test run labels
• Ability to communicate (verbally & in writing) to complete required documentation.
• Adjust equipment settings (position, speed of label, start position of labels) during startup and throughout the run
• Completes product change over tasks on the label and case applicator.  
• Ensure oriented /guide is setup correctly
• Ability to be crossed trained and multitask in multiple positions
• Verify correct bowl labels with QA (each order and roll changes)
• Follow daily pre-flight inspections
• Conduct changeovers
• Confirm correct labels are being applied to product/case
• Clean Herma applicator
• Thread labels into equipment
• Confirm correct labels are being applied to product case
• Program information into equipment
• Setup label applicator
• Follow and enforce the 5S Methodology including maintaining tools and equipment as defined by the 5S marking
• Perform preventive maintenance (PMs) on the label applicator, case applicator, case formers, and the tape machine.  
• Autonomous Maintenance activities including
• Four Equipment related skills for operators:
• Ability to detect abnormalities
• Ability to correct and restore functioning
• Ability to set optimum equipment conditions
• Ability to maintain optimal equipment conditions
• Perform equipment adjustments (position, speed of label, start position of label) and equipment center lining
• Ability to maintain Bistro Bowl efficiency (Production Rates and bowls per minute (BPM).
• Machine trouble shooting as needed.
• Verifies product meets quality standards for size and color without having foreign objects or defects
• Follow shut down procedure
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to read, write and speak English; comprehension of basic math.
• Basic computer skills and ability to multitask.
• Willingness and flexibility to work in a cold, wet, fast-paced, 24 hour plant environment.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, ability to climb stairs numerous times a day.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• GED/High School Diploma.
• Must be proficient in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, or French

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.