About this role
Job Summary: The Produce Packer is responsible for helping to assemble and prepare products for packaging and shipment. Their duties include placing raw materials or products into manufacturing machines to aid the assembly process, packaging finished products and organizing them for shipments and completing checks on equipment and products to ensure quality production.
- Compensation: $16.37 per hour
- Schedule: Shift starts at 6:30am. Full-time employees are scheduled a recurring four-day schedule Monday - Saturday. We do not have set end times to these packaging shifts, so candidates who are open to their shift ending times will be preferred. Opportunities for overtime!
- Benefits: Paid time off and 401k retirement savings!
Essential Functions of the Role
- Grade, classify, and sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications and package accordingly.
- Notify supervisors and other personnel of production problems and assist in identifying and correcting these problems.
- Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
- Remove defects, such as scarred or bruised products.
- Work in a clean, organized and safe manner.
Required Skills and Experience
- Ability to stand on the production floor for 8+ hours per day.
- Ability to distinguish color for grading produce.
- Ability to work in a busy, fast paced environment.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Previous work in a processing or warehouse environment
Note: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories.
Other facts
About Wholesale Produce Supply, LLC
WPS Fresh is a fresh produce distributor of over 100 commodities in the Upper Midwest and Los Angeles.
WPS Fresh’s Minnesota facility pairs its value-added offerings—such as tomato repacking, fresh-cut processing, potato and onion bagging, ripening, and repacks—to offer a full suite of services to customers in the Midwest and Central Canada. WPS-LA is a convenient loading point for its category-leading quality in specialty and growing core item offerings. Customers choose WPS for its efficient and consistent distribution, as well as its fundamental approach to fresh produce distribution and inventory management.
What you'll do
- The Produce Packer is responsible for assembling and preparing products for packaging and shipment. This includes grading, sorting, and packaging products while ensuring quality standards are met.
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