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General Laborer - Pepper Line

McCain Foods
Appleton, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 9/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/4/2025
Position Title: General Laborer - Pepper Line Pool

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

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Grade: [[cust_payGrade]]

Requisition ID: 38193

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences —together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role.

What you’ll be doing.

As a General Laborer For Our Jalapeño Pepper Lines, You Will Be Hands On Every Day As The Frontline Of Our Jalapeño Popper Appetizer Production Process, Ensuring Our Snacks Foods Are Made To The Highest Standards And Are Delivered With Quality, Safety, And The End Customer In Mind. Your Day-to-day May Consist Of

  • Filling, sorting, inspecting, and packaging raw jalapeño peppers and finished goods to meet set quality and quantity standards
  • Executing repetitive manual tasks such as turning over and placing peppers on machinery
  • Keeping production work area and equipment clean and in working order - knowledge of machines and tools is necessary
  • Completing documentation (digital and/or hardcopy) and providing updates to production leadership

The ideal candidate for a role in production is hard-working, dependable, and adaptable to working on various production lines. A strong candidate for this role will also be able to work successfully with various moving mechanical parts, food fumes, airborne particles, extreme cold, extreme heat, and loud noise levels. The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus is required.

This role has several shifts currently available: 2nd Shift (2-10PM) or 3rd Shift (10PM-6AM) Monday-Friday. Shift differential offered.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful.

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • 1 months of experience working in manufacturing within the last 12 months is required, 6 months of experience working in food manufacturing strongly preferred
  • Ability to work independently and with others
  • Ability to independently read, comprehend, and communicate in basic English and interact with all levels of the organization
  • Ability to independently carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
  • Ability to analyze data and draw logical conclusions with minimal guidance
  • Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
  • Willingness to learn new equipment, processes, and technology
  • Ability to bend often and lift at least 50 pounds to various heights, ability to stand for up to 8 consecutive hours
  • Ability to work with jalapeño peppers for the duration of scheduled shift

Benefits of the role.

  • Competitive hourly rate
  • Insurance day ONE of employment
  • 401k match up to 6%
  • PTO, holiday pay, wellness days
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Set schedule/overtime allowances
  • Pay for skills program/education reimbursement

About McCain

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Compensation Package: $22.67 USD hourly bonus eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.

Shift Differential Pay: $1.50 USD hourly for 2nd Shift, $2.00 USD hourly for 3rd Shift

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy Policy

Job Family: Manufacturing

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Department: [[department_obj]]

Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Appleton

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.

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