Production Heavy Labor

Seneca Foods is one of North America's leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States. Our high quality products are primarily sourced from over 1,400 American farms. Seneca holds the largest share of the retail private label, food service, and export canned vegetable markets, distributing to over 90 countries. Products are also sold under the brands of Libby's, Aunt Nellie's, READ, Seneca Farms, Green Valley, Green Giant (Shelf-Stable), CherryMan, Paradise, Pennant, and Seneca labels, including Seneca snack chips. Seneca also provides vegetable products to other companies under various co-pack arrangements.

Seneca Foods offers an excellent benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, 401K, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Paid Time Off and more! Help us make our Farm Fresh Goodness Great! Come join the Seneca Foods team - Apply now!

SUMMARY:

The objective of this position contains several duties throughout the packing facility, Stacking, lifting, dumping raw materials, picking up raw materials from the floor, cleaning, working in wet areas for a long period of time, packing, and/or sorting. Tasks and duties include loading product, monitoring and manipulating materials at various stages of processing; filling various sized containers; and preparing product for shipment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Separate and stack packed boxes
• Setup and prepare pallets to stack packed boxes on
• Lift raw materials, finished products, and packed items, manually or using pallet jack.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected; notify supervisors or operators of any malfunctions or safety concerns.
• Examine products to verify conformance to quality standards.
• Immediately notify supervisor of any process deviations from specification or any contamination of product.
• Maintain a clean work area, free of safety hazards
• Picking up raw materials, finish product from the floor
• Dumping raw materials
• Ability to communicate and work well with others
• Perform repetitive functions paying attention to detail
• Ability to work with and around water for a long period of time
• Perform all assigned duties in a proper and timely manner
• Cooperate with supervisors and managers and ensure compliance with all Company policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Ability to follow and obey management instruction
• Any other duties assigned

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.

• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Work Abilities

• Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time.
• Fast paced setting warehouse environment.
• Work area is inside in 32degree cold temperature rooms. Area is well ventilated with constant noise, well lit; include forklifts, wet/damp environment, wet floors, and moving belts. Attention to keeping foreign objects off belts is required safety factors
• Hazards encountered include lifting packed boxes, roller belt (chain), cold temperature, forklift traffic.
• Smoke-free work environment.

PHYSICAL DEMAND:

• Job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions.
• Willing and able to work long hours and be available nights and/or weekends as required by the business needs.
• Working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors).
• This job requires working in constant cold temperature (below 32 degrees)
• Prolong Standing/walking, crouching, stooping, twisting, balancing, leg/foot use, reaching, overhead extension, handling, pushing/pulling.

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

• Gloves; Aprons; Hair restraints; pallets; totes; volume filler, Sorting tables; Conveyor belts; bin dumper; tote dumper; bins; strap gun; strap; clips

RESUMEN:

El objetivo de esta posicion contiene varias funciones relacionadas con el Empaque, apilando la carga, levantando, desechar vegetales, recogiendo vegetales del piso, limpieza, trabajando en areas humedas durante un largo periodo de tiempo, el empaque, y/o sortear. Funciones y deberes incluyen la carga del producto, Supervision y manipular materiales en distintas etapas de procesamiento; llenar contenedores de diferentes tamanos; y preparan el producto para su envio.

RESPONSABILIDADES Y DEBERES ESENCIALES:

• Separar y apilar cajas empaquetadas
• Configurar y preparar las paletas para apilar las cajas empaquetadas
• Levantar materiales, productos terminados, y articulos empaquetados, a mano o usando un transpaleta.
• Observe operaciones de equipo de modo que los funcionamientos defectuosos puedan ser descubiertos; notifique a supervisores u operadores de cualquier funcionamiento defectuoso o preocupaciones de seguridad.
• Examinar los productos para verificar la conformidad a las normas de calidad.
• Notificar inmediatamente a supervisor de cualquier desviacion del proceso de especificacion o cualquier tipo de contaminacion del producto.
• Mantener un area de trabajo limpia, libre de riesgos de seguridad.
• Recoger los productos o productos empaquetados del piso terminado.
• Desechar de los productos.
• Capacidad para comunicarse y trabajar bien con los demas.
• Funciones repetitivas prestando atencion a los detalles.
• Capacidad para trabajar con y alrededor de lugares mojados durante un largo periodo de tiempo.
• Realizar las tareas que se le asignen en forma apropiada y oportuna.
• Cooperar con los supervisores y gerentes y garantizar el cumplimiento de todas las polizas de la Compania, los procedimientos operativos estandar (SOP), y las Buenas Practicas de Fabricacion (BPF).
• Capacidad de seguir y obedecer instrucciones de los manejadores.
• Cualquier otros deberes asignados.

REQUISITOS DE CALIFICACION:

Para realizar este trabajo con exito, un individuo debe ser capaz de realizar cada deber esencial satisfactoriamente. Los requisitos a continuacion son representativos de los conocimientos, habilidades y/o capacidad requerida. Pueden hacerse adaptaciones razonables que permitan a las personas con discapacidad realizar las funciones esenciales.

Habilidades

• Escuchar activamente - Preste toda su atencion a lo que otras personas estan diciendo, tomando el tiempo necesario para comprender los aspectos que se estan realizando, hacer preguntas, segun corresponda, y no interrumpir en el momento adecuado.

• Juicio y Toma de decisiones - Consideracion de los gastos relativos y ventajas de acciones potenciales para elegir la mas apropiada.
• El Habla - Hablar con los demas para transmitir informacion de manera efectiva.
• Pensamiento Critico - Uso de la logica y el razonamiento para identificar las fortalezas y debilidades de soluciones alternativas, conclusiones o criterios para hacer frente a los problemas.
• Servicio de orientacion - activamente buscando maneras de ayudar a la gente.
• Administracion de tiempo - administrar el tiempo y el tiempo de los demas.

Habilidades de trabajo

• Realizar actividades fisicas General - Realizacion de actividades fisicas que requieren un gran uso de los brazos y las piernas y mover todo su cuerpo, como subir, levantar, balancear, caminar, agacharse, y el manejo de materiales.
• Establecer y mantener relaciones interpersonales - desarrollar relaciones de trabajo constructivo y cooperativo con los demas y mantener a lo largo del tiempo.
• Una bodega con ambiente y ritmo de trabajo rapido.
• Area de trabajo esta dentro de 32 grados centigrados de temperatura. El area esta bien ventilada con ruido constantemente, bien iluminada; incluyen montacargas, ambiente mojada o humedo, pisos mojados, y moviendo las bandas de la maquinaria. Poner atencion a no tener objetos en las bandas no relacionados con el equipo o el empaque es un factor de seguridad requerid.
• Los riesgos incluyen levantar las cajas, cinta de rodillos (cadena), temperatura fria, trafico de montacargas.
• Ambiente libre de no fumar.

DEMANDA FISICA:

• Trabajo requieren trabajar al aire libre, expuesto a todas las condiciones meteorologicas
• Dispuestos y capaces de trabajar largas horas y estar disponibles noches o fines de semana segun lo requerido por las necesidades del negocio.
• Trabajo expuesto a contaminantes (tales como contaminantes, gases, polvo u olores).
• Este trabajo requiere de trabajo en constante temperatura fria (por debajo de 32 grados)
• De pie/caminar prolongar, agacharse, retorcer, balanceo, uso de pierna/pie, restirase, restirar hacia arriba, empujar/jalar.

HERRAMIENTAS Y EQUIPO NECESARIO:

• Guantes, delantales; pelo las limitaciones; paletas de madera, cajas; el volumen para llenar, mesas para sortear; cintas transportadoras; descargador del recipiente; bandejas; correas; broches

Seneca Foods Corporation is committed to providing equal opportunity for all, through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. No employee or applicant will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. Seneca Foods Corporation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you are interested in applying for an employment opportunity and feel you need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact us at ADA@senecafoods.com or call 585-495-4100.