REPACKING WORKER JOB SUMMARY

As a repacking worker you will perform an array of job functions, primarily working to ensure that everything shipped out is of good quality.  At times you will take larger case units and break them down into smaller units. At other times you will pull all of the bad product out of a case.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist in staging items that need to be repacked
• Repack product
• Discard of poor-quality merchandise
• Assure that all product is coded according to company food safety standards
• Maintain a clean, orderly, and safe working environment
• Prepare orders by selecting specific items per customer order
• Stage items in appropriate location for the loading process
• Maintain fresh and adequate inventory of split items in their respective locations
• Clean and sanitize repacking room
• Label products according to company and customer requirements
• Compact recyclable materials in the compactor
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by keeping shelves, pallet area and work stations neat; Sweep, dust and/or mop.  Organize warehouse and work area for orderliness at all times
• Organize cooler shelves and pallets (occasionally)
• Special projects
• Wear proper safety equipment
• Assess quality of product 

Qualification and requirements

• Dependable and reliable

Physical Demands and Abilities

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear
• Regularly lift and/or move objects 10-75 lbs., occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 100 lbs.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance
• Safely operate electric pallet jacks and possibly a reach machine, and to push or pull a hand truck
• Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus
• Specific hearing abilities required for this job include adequate hearing over a loud work environment in which several pieces of machinery are frequently running including pallet jacks, large shipping vehicles, motors, engines, etc.
• Frequently required to enter and exit large refrigerated coolers, as well as work in warehouse open to outdoor temperatures during shipping and/or receiving.  Must be able to tolerate working in temperatures ranging from 25 degrees up to 100 degrees; work environment may be cool and wet
• Ability to multitask, reprioritize, and to make quick decisions and follow commands of supervising staff
• Meet attendance standards