• Job Description

  Req#: 5538

  Description

  Utz Quality Foods is looking to grow our loyal, career driven, and customer focused team and is currently recruiting for a Packer to work from our manufacturing facility located in Goodyear, AZ on 2nd Shift. The hours are Monday thru Friday, 3pm - 11pm, with some Saturdays as needed.

  As a Packer, this candidate will be responsible for the inspection of finished product prior to being bagged and the placing of the bagged product in boxes, cases and displays. The Packer will assist in ensuring the plant environment meets food safety cleanliness objectives and operates according to the establish safety standards.
  

  Key Responsibilities

  • Packs bags of chips into cartons.
  • Assembles cartons, applies stickers and packs cases according to case specifications while verifying the package quality of finished product.
  • Performs visual inspections of chips, quality of chips and chip packages and alerts machine operator or shift supervisor / lead of any problems.
  • Pours on rework as needed.
  • Covers “pick out” lines and recognizes bad product.
  • Perform daily sanitation task.
  • Perform weekly sanitation task.
  • Perform monthly sanitation task.
  • Maintain GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices).
  • Maintains and follows all Safety guidelines.
  • Maintaining appropriate housekeeping standards.
  • Gives lunch and work breaks.
  • Trains new packers.
  • Requires working proactively in a cross-functional team with diverse groups of people.
  • Responsible for quality and food safety tasks for their position.
  • Preforms additional duties as assigned.

  Continuously Pursuing Excellence!

  Here at Utz, we have a passion for exciting and delighting consumers with delicious snack foods made from high quality ingredients. After over a century with a strong family heritage, our diverse portfolio of brands includes Utz, Zapp’s, Boulder Canyon, and On the Border. Our associates are the reason for the success of this company, so it is important we provide a supportive, caring and inclusive environment that offers opportunities for career growth and advancement. We also help take care of our associates by providing benefits, resources, and programs that ensure they live their healthiest lives. Our full-time benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more. Join our world class team and help us become the fastest growing pure-play U.S. snacking company of scale!

  Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

  Qualifications

  · Requires basic reading and math skills.

  · Requires knowledge of product quality and basic operations acquired through training.

  · Ability to communicate production issues to fellow co-workers and supervision.

  · Able to lift up to 25 lbs.

  · Ability to perform constant and repetitive motion in a physically demanding position.

  Ability to work Monday - Friday, 3pm to 11pm with occasional Saturday's as required.

• About the company

  We are Utz. Our story began with Bill and Salie who started making and selling potato chips in 1921. Now we are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. This is a reflection of Utz quality…in our facilities, in our products and in our people. Together, the Utz team has provided the very best products to an ever growing marketplace since our start.

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