Packing Shed Laborer

Job description

Stacks cartons and bags according to pack type and brand onto correct pallets.
Stacks cartons and bags of onions onto pallets and occasionally into railcars.

Sorts agricultural produce (onions) by performing the following duties:
Segregates produce on conveyor belt or table according to defect, color, and size.
Places produce on designated conveyors.
Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign matter.
Materials used in sorters position include rubber gloves and knives

Sweeps, mops, scrubs, and vacuums industrial packing shed, offices and bathrooms.
Empties trash and garbage containers.
Maintains building, performing minor and routine painting.
Notifies management concerning need for major repairs or additions to lighting, heating, and ventilating equipment.
Cleans snow and debris from sidewalk and walking areas.
Post caution signs.
Maintains cleaning logs.
Maintains rodent traps.
Onion debris cleanup around packing line.

Special Requirements

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Full Season Commitment: The job offered requires that the worker be available for work every day that work is available for the full period of employment. The worker agrees to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer whenever work is available through the full period of employment.

Training: There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with job specification and to demonstrate proper procedures.

General Job Specifications:

1. Must be able to perform all duties within this job description in what can be considered a safe manner adhering to all established safety guidelines, practices and procedures.

2. Must wear all required and assigned personal protective equipment at all times when required to do so. Employee must wear proper clothing and footwear. All footwear must be closed-toe due to safety precautions.

3. The employer or designated employee will provide instructions and general supervision. Employees will be expected to conform to the specific instructions given for each days work.

4. Employees will be required to attend an orientation on workplace rules, policies and safety information.

5. All work sites covered by this clearance order and all facilities of the employer are drug free work places. Employees must not report for work, enter employers property, or perform service while under the influence of or having used illegal controlled substances. Employees must not report for work or perform service while under the influence of or impaired by prescription drugs, medications, alcohol or other substances that may, in any way, adversely affect their alertness, coordination, reaction response or safety.

6. No non-employees will be permitted in or adjacent to the work site. In particular, no non-working children may be present at or adjacent to work sites or left in vehicles during the workday. Employees arriving at work with non-working children or other non-employees will be sent home.

7. Employees must have transportation to the work site.

8. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

9. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved oral instructions.

10. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

11. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 55 pounds.