Hours: 12.5 hours shifts – Day: 7am-7:30pm; Night: 7pm-7:30am.
The factory starts up at 7pm Sundays and shuts down at 7:30pm Fridays (with possibility of overtime).
This position is eligible to receive a $3,000 sign-on bonus, broken into 2 payments of $1,500 to be paid at six and twelve months.
This position also comes with a 4% Shift Premium.
JOB PURPOSE:
Perform packaging operations including quality control operations and close management of packaging team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
SAFETY
- All PPE must be worn in compliance with the OHSA/RC requirements
- Enforce/Respect the safety rules and the internal policy
- Stop any equipment / operative works / external company works if safety/environment protection/fire protection rules are broken
ENVIRONMENT
- Guarantee and apply ISO 14001 (Environment), and all related working procedures
- Ownership of environmental responsibilities listed in ENV-REF-002 – Associates SEA Matrix
QUALITY & FOOD SAFETY
- Guarantee and apply ISO 9001, FSS/ISO22000, Mars Standards, and all related working procedures
- Support the HACCP program in the department
- Follow GMP-GHP in the area
- Inform Shift Supervisor of quality deviations according to product standards and production procedures
- Maintain CCPs and oPrPs in the department
- Perform the CCP and oPrP’s procedure according to SOPs
- Sampling of products to ensure quality control (micro sampling)
- Report any pest activity to related Manager
- Perform and record quality control tests
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Adhere to multi-skills policy and acquire at least one additional competence as established with and by Management
- Training: attend any training program as scheduled by company management and train any designed person in the position
- Lead packaging workforce on line in order to comply with the production planning
MANAGEMENT & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Set up packaging machines
- Operate packaging machines
- Stack packaged products in case / on pallets
- Monitor packaging machines
- Identify bags / case / pallets according to GMP
- Perform inventory of raw ingredients / packaging materials / finished products in bins, silos and racks (cyclical and period end inventories)
- Perform daily monitoring swabs (M swabs) as required
- Perform area-related equipment first level maintenance
- Any task as delegated by Manager
- Work closely with the extruder operator in order to maintain the highest efficiency of the plant for completion of the production planning
- Full knowledge of packaging operations (Paper bag machines, Plastic bag machines, Sampling machine, On-Process Check-Weigher, Inkjet, Labeler, Wrappers, Screeners, Scales, Quality control, Forklift / Pallet truck operations, Packaging materials / Finished goods…)
CLEANLINESS & TIDINESS
- Perform Housekeeping Checks to ensure compliance to 5S
- Perform operational cleaning operations
- Change over cleaning
- Weekly cleaning
- Hypo cleaning
COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION
- Provide any requested documentation to other Departments according to internal rules
- Shift changes: communicate with co-worker of next shift about machine problems, progress on production schedule, bin inventories, quality issue…
- Complete production reports as required by manager and record any production events (stops, quantity, quality…)
BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:
- Training and/or experience in functional tasks (opt: knowledge of feed/food industry)
- Leadership, Good communication, Cost conscious, Initiative, Self-motivated, Team player, Safety & Hygiene & Quality conscious, Technically inclined, Unrestricted range of motion, Color discrimination, Olfactory & texture perception, Depth perception, Tolerance to hot environment.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between the below range CAD 23.85 - CAD 31.30. Please note: This job posting is for an existing vacancy. AI is used as a supporting tool in our recruitment process.
