What are the responsibilities and job description for the Blender position at Fresh Express?
1st Shift 6:30am - 5:00pm
The Blender is responsible for ensuring specified ratios of salad blends.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Sort, grade, weigh, and inspect products, verifying and adjusting product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
- Observe machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.
- Monitor the production line, watching for problems such as pileups, jams, or glue that isn't sticking properly.
- Attach identification labels to finished packaged items, or cut stencils and stencil information on containers, such as lot numbers or shipping destinations.
- Stock and sort products for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels.
- Inspect and remove defective products and packaging material.
- Start machine by engaging controls.
- Remove finished packaged items from machine and separate rejected items.
- Count and record finished and rejected packaged items.
Required Skills:
- Working in a very cold and wet environment (33 - 35 degrees Fahrenheit)
- Long periods of standing on hard wet surface area
- Pushing, pulling, and lifting to 30 lbs.
- Bending, stooping, reaching overhead, stretching, climbing stairs
- Repetitious movements of hand, arms, and legs
Other Information:
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.