What IF you started your career with a company set on excellence through building relationships and delivering results? Joining Innovation Foods is just that! A career here means you are joining a rapidly growing organization, known for its community outreach, diversity, inclusivity, and premier production facilities.
In addition to a great place to work, Innovation Foods strives to offer its employees a holistic career experience that incorporates learning and development, wellness, and exceptional benefits.
Part of our benefits include:

• Competitive Pay Rates
• Medical, dental, vision and prescription plans with wellness incentives
• Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (on applicable plans)
• 401K Plan – with a 100% company match up to 3%. 50% match on the next 2%
• Company-funded Long Term and Short-Term Disability

• Company funded Life Insurance Policy
• Paid Vacation and Personal Days*

Job Description – Packaging Assistant
Job Details
Location: Bridgeton, NJ
Shift: 1st* Shift*
Reports to: Site Lead

Job Summary
Take direction from Site Lead and work to maintain overall product quality. Manually handle finished product and supplies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manual palatalizing of finished product.
• Box moving, stacking, and bag dropping.
• Fill machines with cardboard
• Report all equipment malfunctions and abnormalities to Site Lead, Management, and/or Maintenance.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Ability to grow and assume increased responsibilities as Company requirements dictate
• Flexibility to vary work schedule dependent upon production and staffing needs
• Follow all Company and governmental policies and regulations (e.g. SOP, GMP, LOTO, Safety, etc.)
• Follow job specific SOP’s
• Keep all areas of responsibility clean and organized
• Keep neat and accurate records and paperwork per Company and government policy
• Perform necessary preventive maintenance on equipment
• Report all equipment malfunctions and abnormalities to Site Lead, Management and/or Maintenance
• Suggest any new preventative maintenance tasks that could be added to improve efficiency, eliminate downtime and product failures.
• Work with maintenance personnel to effect repairs as necessary
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong analytic skills.
• Good computer skills including literacy with Excel and Word.
• Individual should have an understanding of food safety, food laboratory practices, GMP, HACCP, PMO, Pest Control and basic Sanitation practices.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to read, speak, and write in English
• Cold or hot temperatures
• Wet or humid work environment
• Working near moving mechanical parts with risk of electrical shock
• Working with caustic chemicals
• Loud noise level
• Requires employee to stand or walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Required to regularly lift up to 50lbs
• Flexibility to work overtime and additional shifts based on business needs

Desired Qualities:

• Collaborator - able to work with other members of the processing team
• Adaptive - adjusts to changing priorities and conditions
• Motivated - self-starter with the ability to work in a team and independently to achieve team objectives
• Safety conscience - abide by all safety measures put in place at Innovation Foods
• Customer focused – understands the need for the highest standard of food quality in production

Innovation Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact JoinUs@innovation-foods.com for assistance.

Job Type: Full-time