Requisition ID: 37953 

Job Description

Essential Duties:

• Under limited supervision, the Utility Worker performs a variety of routine manual work requiring physical strength and endurance, including operating forklift to transport raw materials and finished product.
• This position rotates between the following four areas; receiving, onion hoppers, breading hopper room, and the freezer.
• Unload semi-trucks of raw and packaging materials by using a forklift and transport to the warehouse ensuring that the area is kept clean and organized.
• Unloads and stacks onions (up to 50 bags at 50 pounds per unit stacks to a height of 6 feet - up to 3 loads per 8 hour shift of up to 1000 bags per load) onto pallets and transports to storage area or cutting area as required. 
• Counts and dumps sacks of onions into cutting hoppers as required. 
• Places carts under end cutters and empties scrap onion into trash compactors.
• Stacks, bales and stores burlap sacks as required. 
• Load bags of batter and breading onto the elevator and operate to bring up to the breading hopper room.  Manually dump 50 lb bags into the hoppers.
• Performs general housekeeping work including removal of excess scrap from end cutters, shovels or sweeps scrap from floors, flushes floors with water, may assist with machinery cleaning and performs other housekeeping work in other plant areas as required. 
• Completes product recall tags and places on all palletized product and checks to insure that product cases packed match recall tag counts. 
• Complete and enter into the AS400 system all appropriate production paperwork in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Keeps packaging areas supplied with raw materials and supplies. 
• May stack cases onto slip sheets or pallets, stretch wraps and transports product to cold storage area. 
• Transports extruded onion ring stacks into cold storage area as required.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Understands and follows established sanitation and safety rules and procedures. 
   

Criteria:  Employees with a final written warning on file for a work-rule violation in the rolling calendar year (1 year back from this posting date) will not be eligible to bid for these openings.

Selection Process:  Based on seniority as well job knowledge and skills, candidates will be interviewed by the hiring Supervisor. 

Compensation Package:  - Starting at 24.30 USD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.