General Packer

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
You independently operate and maintain at least one process, equipment or systems following autonomous maintenance (AM) standards and use your technical skills to improve line and/or system performance to meet business needs.
How you will contribute
You are a key ingredient in changing how the world snacks. With coaching, you will operate and maintain equipment to deliver on our safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets. You will use execute all standard work processes on your equipment using AM (autonomous maintenance) and PM (progressive maintenance) standards and ensure that safety processes are observed, and that quality assurance activities are performed. You will understand the losses in their area and equipment and report them.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Operating machines with coaching
• Safety and quality standards for operating machines
• Reading and writing, and fluently conversant in the language of communication as appropriate to the site
• Collaborating well in a diverse work environment

More about this role
Major/Essential Responsibilities

• Rotate work station between feeding finished candy onto the dumping table and inspecting candy quality, ensuring that packaged product meets quality standard. At some machines, the General Packer is required to pack bagged candy into cardboard boxes and manually load boxes onto an empty pallet for the warehouse

• Communicate material requirements to appropriate personnel
• Provide support as required to machine operators
• Responsible to continuously clean the area surrounding the work station
• Maintain general work centre cleanliness, support major line cleaning and end of shift cleaning
• Responsible for fixing jam-ups
• Record batch number and time of day for every new pallet of candy
• Knowledge and understanding of SOP's and work instructions
• Understand, participate and support all safety programs, policies and initiatives within the manufacturing location
• Responsible for ensuring all packaged product produced meets all GMP and food safety requirements
• All other duties as assigned by supervisor

Knowledge and Skills

• GMP/Food Safety and HACCP training
• Lockout training
• WHMIS
• Ability to lift up to 30 lbs.

Education

• High School Diploma

Experience / Skills

• Previous experience using production line type machinery or food processing machinery would be an asset.

Effort
Physical Effort:

• A high level of physical effort in:
  • Bending
  • Lifting from the floor to waist, floor to shoulder, and waist to shoulder
  • Manual dexterity
  • Standing for long periods of time
  • Walking
  • Crouching/Squatting
  • Reaching forward below the waist level and above the shoulder
  • Repetitive physical demands

Mental Effort:

• Minor level of mental effort overall:
  • High attention to detail
  • Repetitive tasks, but requires a high attention to detail

Business Unit Summary
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.
Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.
Job Type
Regular
Manufacturing core
Manufacturing