Description

Are you looking for an exciting, hands-on opportunity to start your warehouse career? General Produce is seeking dedicated and detail-oriented individuals to join our team as a Repack Associates at our warehouse and distribution center! This entry-level position is ideal for those who thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy working with their hands, and want to be part of a friendly, team-focused culture.

Primary Purpose: The Repack Worker sorts and repacks produce in the Repack Department. This position may assist with sanitation of the premises.

Schedule: Sunday-Thursday 5am start time

Essential Functions:

1. Lift cases and segregate produce on table to get ready for repacking.
2. Sort and discard items and foreign matter.
3. Bunch, tie and trim produce.
4. Place produce in packaging bags, cases and other containers.
5. After appropriate training, may use material handling equipment to move produce within the warehouse.
6. At all times when working in direct contact with food, food-contact surfaces, and food-packaging, conform to hygienic practices while on duty to the extent necessary to protect against contamination of food. The methods for maintaining cleanliness include but are not limited to:

1. Wearing outer garments suitable to the operation in a manner that protects against the contamination of food, food-contact surfaces, or food-packaging materials.
2. Maintaining adequate personal cleanliness.
3. Washing hands thoroughly (and sanitizing if necessary to protect against contamination with undesirable microorganisms) in an adequate hand-washing facility before starting work, after each absence from the work station, and at any other time when the hands may become soiled or contaminated.
4. Removing all unsecured jewelry and other objects that might fall into food, equipment, or containers, and removing hand jewelry that cannot be adequately sanitized. If such hand jewelry cannot be removed, it may be covered by material which can be maintained in an intact, clean and sanitary condition and which effectively protects against the contamination by these objects of the food, food-contact surfaces, or food packaging materials.
5. Maintaining gloves, if they are used in food handling, in an intact, clean, and sanitary condition. The gloves should be of an impermeable material.
6. Storing clothing or other personal belongings in designated areas and away from where food stored and moved onto trucks.
7. Confining the following to areas other than where food is stored, staged, moved onto trucks or transported in any manner: eating food, chewing gum, drinking beverages, or using tobacco.
8. Taking any other necessary precautions to protect against contamination of food, food-contact surfaces, or food-packaging materials with microorganisms or foreign substances including, but not limited to, perspiration, hair, cosmetics, tobacco, chemicals and medicines applied to the skin.

Additional Functions:

1. Learns, utilizes, and supports all company policies and procedures.
2. Complies with all safety and security regulations and procedures.
3. Reports regularly to supervisor.
4. Other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

1. Ability to work in a team environment.
2. Ability to perform the primary functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Education and Experience:

High school education with one month related experience or training or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

1. The employee is regularly required to stand and/ or walk for most of the shift. Employee must also sit and talk or hear.
2. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
3. The employee must regularly lift, push and pull, and move up to 50 lbs.
4. Employee is required to stoop, kneel, or crouch and handle a hand truck loaded with cases of produce.

Work Environment and Environmental Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

1. Field of work includes warehouse and outside weather conditions. Individual is exposed to wet and/or humid condition, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold and vibration.
2. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical equipment such as lift gates, pull out unloading ramps, dock ramps, forklifts, pallet movers, hand trucks, load locks, doors and other related equipment

Salary : $17