Work Environment: Work is primarily performed indoors near operating equipment and loud noise, such as forklift horns and loose particles may be present. Work performed in this job requires employee to wear a bump cap, hearing protection, safety shoes/boots and safety glasses at all times. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • As directed and trained, operate the Palletizer operating machine. • Operate and perform routine adjustments and changeover functions. Specific examples would be adjustments for pallet configuration, and pallet centering. • Operate printer and apply proper pallet tags as trained • Perform and comply with all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). • Perform product stack configurations. • Maintain accurate, complete and legible paperwork. • Operate the shrink wrap and shrink wrap changeover. • Keep pallets and cardboard available to the palletizer at all times. • Supply bagging with needed packaging (bags), following FIFO rotation. • Troubleshoot minor palletizer operating problems. • Remove full pallets from palletizer and store them properly in the warehouse, damage free. • Repair any damaged pallets or bags before shift is over. • Communicate production status to oncoming shift personnel. • Maintain communication with maintenance personnel on major machine issues. • Keep work station and surrounding area in a clean and safe manner at all times
