Warehouse Packager

Star Stainless is a high-growth, successful distribution company offering a competitive wage, paid holidays, PTO, 401(k), and benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and more.

Hours: 8am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri

Basic Function:

Packagers are responsible for the transferring of large volumes of the Company products into smaller unit box packages for sale to customers.

Prerequisites:

Packagers must have basic math and reading skills to carry out required tasks. They must also have the ability to get along with co-workers and supervisors in a consistently friendly way. The employee must be able to work with a minimum amount of supervision.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Mental functions: Packagers must understand, or within a reasonable time be capable of understanding, fastener terminology. Packagers must be able to write by hand legibly in English and have the ability to use, or learn to use within a reasonable time, gauges, rulers, electronic scales, label pointers, computer terminals and the procedures necessary to operate the packaging machine. Packagers must be capable of carrying out most tasks unaided and follow simple instructions from their supervisor. Pack­ aging mistakes must be at a minimal level. Work must be performed in an organized and systematic way, so orders do not become confused, and products are not incorrectly identified or mixed. Packagers must be able to maintain accuracy in counting products and perform basic mathematical calculations. They must be able to understand the customers' documents used for customer orders and backorders. Packagers may also have to utilize and understand computer scanning devices.

2. Physical functions: Packagers transfer small boxes of Company products from the packaging machine to the shipping pallet. Boxes customarily weigh from 1 to 10 pounds. These boxes must be transferred by hand at the rate of at least a few hundred times a day, and by machine at a higher rate. Occasionally, 15 to 25 times a day, boxes of 20-30 pounds must be lifted. Lifting would include "low lifting" which means raising or lowering containers of up to 20-30 pounds up to waist level in a vertical direction. Packagers must transfer by hand Company products and manually count fasteners or use an electronic scale to count. Packagers must write legibly by hand on produce labels or print and use labels from the priming machines on boxes, inventory documents and shipping documents. Packagers set up, adjust and manually operate the packaging and labelling machines and the electronic scales.

3. Methods: Packagers perform the lifting and counting requirements of the job manually. Electronic scales are sometimes used to assist in counting, otherwise counting is by hand. The packaging machine assists in packaging but must be manually operated. Normally labels for packages are printed on a label printer which is used in conjunction with a computer terminal.

4. Equipment utilized: Packagers use the following equipment: gauges, rulers, electronic scales, label printers, computer terminals, packaging machines, pens and pencils, and tools used to clean up and maintain a sanitary, uncluttered work area.

5. Safety: Packagers must be able to perform the essential functions of the job without a significant risk of substantial harm to the health and safety of the Packager or others.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person