Skilled Operator - Unitizer

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Skilled Operator - Unitizer / Cedar Rapids, IA

As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for supporting production packaging and processing operations, sanitation and participation in startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment.

Shift hours:

CURRENTLY HIRING FOR 2ND SHIFT

• 8-hour shifts
• 2nd shift: 3:00pm - 11:00pm
• Ability and willingness to work overtime, any shift, including days, nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency events
• Plant operation is 24 hours a day, 7 days per week

Pay:

• $35.07/hour
• Shift differential Additional $0.24 per hour when working 2nd shift
• Shift differential Additional $0.31 per hour when working 3^rd shift

• Overtime pay
• Time worked after 40 hours of work is paid at 1.5 times regular rate of pay
• Time worked on Saturday is paid at 1.5 times regular rate of pay
• Time worked on Sunday is paid at 2 times (double pay) regular rate of pay
• Time worked on a holiday is paid at 3 times regular rate of pay (if eligible for holiday pay and holiday is worked)

Benefits:

• Great paid time off benefit
  • 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 13 paid holidays
  • 6 paid Sick and Emergency days per year
  • Opportunity to earn additional Paid Days Of

• 401(k) match
• Health Insurance- Including medical, vision, dental and life
• And much more!

About our Location:

The Cedar Rapids plant offers numerous growth and promotion opportunities, often promoting from within for salaried positions. The plant provides competitive pay and benefits, making it one of the highest-rated employers in the area. The plant organizes holiday dinners, family days, bring your child to work day, a summer bash with families and community involvement, and a quarter-century club celebration for employees with 25 or more years of service. Fun facts include Ashton Kutcher's previous employment at the plant and his father's 35-year tenure in the fruit department. The plant is also the sole domestic producer of Betty Crocker frosting.

Our Products:

Cereals, Desserts, Gushers, Fruit by the foot, Fruit Rollups and more!

What your day will look like:

• Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
• Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
• Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
• CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
  • Operating unitizing equipment
  • Palletizing and packaging operations
  • Forklift operation for material handling
  • Equipment setup, changeover, and shutdown
  • Quality checks on packaging/unitizing output
  • Troubleshooting packaging/unitizing equipment issues
  • Multitasking and prioritization
  • Proactive problem-solving
  • Overtime flexibility
  • Training new employees
  • Working independently

What you have to offer:

• Minimum of an associate or bachelor's degree
• 2 years of experience in a manufacturing/production environment is required
• Previous lab or food safety/quality department experience
• A proven ability to manage multiple projects while performing everyday tasks is essential
• Must possess the ability to understand and effectively communicate with co-workers, supervisors and others in the workplace regarding work matters (our business is generally conducted in English).

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
• Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
• Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
• Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net and gloves when required
• Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
• Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery

Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environmen

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.