Quality Production Specialist (1st Shift)

Company Profile

"Enhancing the Lives of Those We Touch by Helping People Reach Their Goals”

Melaleuca has firmly supported this mission statement since our humble beginning in 1985. Everything we accomplish is done with an eye toward promoting the physical, environmental, financial, and personal wellness of those around us. Our focus has always been on wellness. By manufacturing and selling effective, high quality, natural, health oriented products we help people live more vibrant, healthier, and happier lives. When you walk through the doors at Melaleuca, you can feel it immediately. This is The Wellness Company.

We have achieved consistent and profitable growth with our annual revenue hitting over $2 billion dollars. We now have over 4,000 employees and operate in 19 countries around the world. Melaleuca is positioned to grow even more rapidly in upcoming years. 

Overview

This Position is in Knoxville, TN

Our Quality Production Specialists are passionate about bringing our products to life for our customers. Melaleuca relentlessly strives to improve processes and increase efficiencies. Our Quality Production Specialists play a critical role in our accomplishing these objectives by eliminating problems on the production floor and working diligently and efficiently. As a Quality Production Specialist you would be working directly with various equipment to produce products as well as manual processes such as filling, labeling, auditing, packing, and shipping products for our customers.

Our Quality Production Specialists enjoy the same benefits offered to all our full-time team members:

• Longevity Bonus (5 Yrs/$5000, 10 Yrs/$10,000, 15 Yrs/$15,000, etc.)
• Company Profit Sharing (After 6 months of full-time employment)
• First Pay Review After 6 Months
• Medical, Dental/Orthodontia, Vision
• 401(k) with a company match
• Free Life Insurance
• Potential to earn $60 Safety Bonus quarterly
• $90/month of Free Company Products ($1,080/year)
• Company-Sponsored Employee Appreciation Events (Employee Family Picnic, Christmas Party, etc.)
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Clean, Indoor, Climate-Controlled Environment
• Opportunities to Promote
• No Layoffs
• Safe, Natural Product Line
• and so much more!

Responsibilities

Essential

• Sets-up work area by retrieving production components (i.e., bottles, caps, pallets, products, rags, totes, etc.) and by sterilizing the tables and equipment, code dating individual bottles, etc.
• Uses personnel protective equipment where required.
• Fills bottles by operating filling machinery, or using manual process.
• Works at assigned Filling machine to produce finished product.
• Caps bottles by manually applying caps, operating a crimper, operating an air press machine, etc.
• Labels specified products by applying the label in appropriate location.
• Prepares pallets by filling totes, labeling totes with required information, loading pallets, moving pallets with pallet jacks to the correct area, etc.
• Lifts finished product in totes onto pallets, onto a table or onto a shelf.
• Performs clean-up duties by washing equipment, sweeping & mopping the floors, emptying the garbage, wiping down workstations with IPA and buckets, etc.
• Sets-up and operates the sealer by plugging in machinery, monitoring temperature to prevent explosions, capping bottles, washing bottles, boxing products, labeling boxes, etc.
• Inspects quality of own work for cleanliness, label placement, lids tight, correct batch numbers, etc.
• Assists in training other associates as needed by demonstrating tasks, answering questions, etc.
• Monitors quality by wiping excess product from containers, checking silk-screened labels, count on boxes, stacking of pallets, and by verifying that labels are correctly placed.
• Completes personal reports by recording information (i.e., individual performance, batch sheets, cleaning logs, labeling, amounts, OTC product forms, component returns sheet to warehouse, etc.).
• Assists in machine tear down, cleaning and set-up, etc.

Qualifications

Essential

• Ability to work independently
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to lift a minimum of 65 lbs. Must be able to lift boxes/totes from the floor, to a pallet or onto the Product Delivery line
• Standing and walking for duration of 8-hour shift; ability to climb stairs
• Pulling, stretching, bending, and lifting for duration of shift
• Ability to organize and coordinate projects
• Manual dexterity for such duties as collating, sorting, filling, toting, etc.
• Ability to read, write and perform basic math skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc.)
• Work overtime as needed

Why Melaleuca

Melaleuca is one of the leading Health and Wellness companies in the world. We manufacture and distribute nutritional, pharmaceutical, personal care, facial care, home hygiene, and other wellness products and distribute them directly to the consumer through a full-service catalog and Internet shopping system. We carefully craft products used every day with the highest standards of safety, health, and wellness in mind.

This revolutionary system is changing the way hundreds of thousands of people shop by eliminating middlemen and reducing marketing and distribution costs. This enables the company to spend more on research and high-quality, ecologically-sensible ingredients, while maintaining reasonable prices.

Great culture - flexibility is a must in this position; you'll become a part of a fast-paced team dedicated to a feel-good lifestyle brand dedicated to changing lives. Like the rest of Melaleuca, we are proud to be part of a values-driven organization that treats employees with respect. Our employees and their families enjoy company parties and countless discounts around the community. We implement a very real open-door policy, and all employees are on a first name basis—it feels more like a family than a multi-national corporation.

Safe, uncrowded, affordable - nestled in the heart of beautiful Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls is a prosperous and vibrant community, as well as the gateway to recreational paradise. This unique setting provides numerous opportunities for total wellness -- social, physical, financial, and emotional. If you love outdoor activities, this is the place for you, with the Snake River running right through town, the Rocky Mountains dominating the horizon, and Yellowstone less than a 2-hour drive away.

Excellent compensation - in addition to a competitive wage, we offer comprehensive benefits for our full-time employees that include all you would expect plus some remarkable surprises, such as a longevity bonus. 

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