Machine Operator 3

Title: Machine Operator 3

Department: Bistro

Location: Jackson, GA

Shift: 2nd shift

Pay rate: $19.25 an hour

Reports to: Production Manager

Position Summary:

California based Ready Pac, is a premier producer of convenience fresh foods, including fresh-cut produce. The company is entering a new chapter of transformation and is on a mission to give people the freedom to eat healthier. By focusing on a strong performance culture, lean operations, and innovative product development, Ready Pac is poised for growth. With processing facilities throughout the United States, Ready Pac manufactures a complete range of value-added products featuring fresh produce and protein. Offerings include fresh-cut salads, fruits, vegetables, snacking, complete meals and prepared foods that are distributed in supermarkets and restaurant chains across North America. For more information, visit www.readypac.com. This role is a key position within our manufacturing plants and supports our production team leads as they drive production to the highest safety, quality and efficiency standards by embracing the Company's RCE philosophy. The machine operator operates and maintains the sealing machine equipment. This pivotal role impacts line efficiencies by increasing production, reducing rework and minimizing downtime. This key position will be a champion of line maintenance for the T400, check weigher and metal detector.

What if your job had a real impact?

By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables.

Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods® and Bistro®.

Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!

Bonduelle Fresh Americas is a Certified B Corp for a better life. Bonduelle chose B Corporation because of its comprehensive and rigorous standards and its ability to measure a company's governance as well as worker, community, and environmental impact. We aim to make a positive impact on People, Planet and Food, as seen in our global B!Pact objectives. B Corp certification validates our positive impact and tells the world we are part of a community using business as a force for good.

Minimum Qualifications:

• GED/High School Diploma
• Reading, Writing, Speaking English
• Comprehension of basic math
• Mechanically inclined
• Key Experiences (What experiences are key to the success of this job?)
• Willingness to work in a cold/wet environment
• Able to work flexible schedule
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Team player-able to work on a team
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to lead/direct workflow
• Ability to understand plant KPI's (production, quality & safety)

Physical Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, this position entails use of ladders and catwalks to reach production equipment, regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme cold for extended periods of time. The associate frequently works in high, precarious places. The associate is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.