Production Worker-Heavy Lifting at Primal Pet Foods, Inc. – Montrose, Colorado

Job Description
This position is responsible for performing production work in the facility. Starts, operates, tends, stops, and cleans machines. Assembles finished product. Inspects product to ensure high quality and compliance with company standards and procedures. This role requires regular heavy lift/carry/push/pull of raw materials and boxes of products.

Pay range: $16.00- $17.09
Schedule: Monday- Friday 5:00 am to 1:30 pm
Overtime available!
Weekends as needed.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Startup and stop equipment.
• Assist with production.
• Cleans production area.
• Breakdown boxes for recycling.
• Load and unload items from machines, carts, and dollies.
• Feed or place raw material, wip onto equipment for processing.
• Teamwork.
• Ensure conformance to specifications.
• Use pallet jack.
• Separate frozen material for processing.
• Place equipment on a conveyor belt for further processing.
• Record data.
• Load and unload processing equipment.
• Package finished products.
• Take instructions from supervisors.
• Efficiently and safely move product to the proper area for use following all department and QA procedures.
• Sorting, wrapping, packing, repacking as needed. Transfer finished goods pallets to the holding freezer.
• Return raw materials, WIPs, or packaging materials to the respective department or location in accordance with the department's procedures for receiving and returning materials.
• Proper housekeeping throughout the shift and in all departmental areas.
• Other duties as assigned
• Punctual and Regular Attendance Required

Qualifications and Skills

• Less than high school education; at least 3 months related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to add and subtract numbers and to multiply and divide and understand percentages. Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement and quantity measurements.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee frequently is required to walk or stand and must regularly lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds without assistance. Additionally, you must be able to lift and or move more than 75 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include peripheral vision. You will be regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, extreme cold, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Primal Pet Group is a Drug Free Workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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