Position Title: Poly Operator Assistant-A Shift
Position Type: Regular – Full-Time
Position Location: Othello
Grade: Scale 02_NONU
Requisition ID: 24910
Position Title: Poly Operator Assistant 1-A Shift
Position Type: Regular – Full Time – Hourly
Position Location: Othello, Washington
About McCain: McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. They are a big part of what makes us unique. McCain Foods opened their first production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. McCain Foods quickly established itself within the Canadian marketplace and then began a journey to become the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties.
McCain products can be found in thousands of restaurants and supermarket freezers around the world. In addition to fries, McCain also produces other foods, including appetizers, oven meals, vegetables and juice for both the retail and foodservice industries.
Why You Should Join Our Team:
Hourly wage scale: $17.68-$19.65 USD hourly + Benefits
The hourly range reflects the minimum and maximum target for the position at the time of posting. Within the range, exact compensation will be determined based on education/training, skill set, experience, and other organizational needs.
Shift Differential Pay:
Swing – $0.15
Graveyard – $0.75
McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance. In addition, we offer other benefits including:
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Education Reimbursement Assistance
- Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities
- Employee Family Assistance program
- Paid Time Off
- Holidays
- Life Insurance
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- Short & Long Term Disability
McCain Food’s facility in Othello, Washington recently completed numerous upgrades and a 170 thousand square foot addition and now employs over 500 people! In line with our values and our overall global commitment to sustainability, this investment also brings environmental efficiencies, reducing the facility’s carbon footprint while doubling its production, underlining McCain’s commitment to sustainability.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Poly Operator Assistant 1-A shift to join our team in Othello! As the successful candidate, you will load cases onto Case Erector machines, changes tape, and perform changeover adjustments to the Wexxar, DynaCop. You will also help in daily sanitation and clean-ups in the packaging area.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promotes and adheres to company safety work rules and regulations.
- Loads cases onto a case erector machine in the proper position.
- Ensures sufficient amount of cases are loaded correctly to prevent machine from running out of cases causing machine downtime. .
- Communicates with Dry Supply regarding the status of case inventory.
- Reworks bags or cases from the tape deck area or from Shipping.
- Helps strip out product as needed.
- Observes and removes damaged cases as needed.
- Performs sanitation around assigned machines and surrounding area.
- Learns proper codes and SKUs of cases.
- Attends and participates in all annual, departmental, and job specific required training and monthly informational meetings.
- Communicates any problems or changes in production or quality to supervisor and appropriate personnel.
- Understands and adheres to the concepts and techniques of the quality process in order to ensure a quality operation.
- Keeps area clean and orderly in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s).
- Helps to build and promote a strong “Teamwork” environment in each individual work group, the Factory, and the Company.
- Completing work requests (Blue Tickets) for the Wexxar, or Dyna Cop equipment that needs mechanical attention.
- Clears Wexxar case erector case jams using proper LOTO as necessary.
- Reports issues with case erector, Blueprint or DynaPak equipment that prevents them from running at peak efficiency.
- Responsible for hand taping any cases that won’t go through the case erector.
- Must be able to perform Lock Out Tag Out successfully.
- Responsible for breaking down and saving unused cases when performing a case changeover.
- Participates in continuous improvement process.
- Must adhere to the McCain Code of Conduct.
- Wexar setup, changeover, operation and trouble shooting.
- DynaCop set-up, changeover, operation and troubleshooting
- Case settler setup, changeover, operation and trouble shooting.
- Kleanline elevator setup, operation and trouble shooting.
Qualifications:
- Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Sustainability and Plant Friendly Practices are at the Heart of McCain:
We’ve embarked upon a journey to create planet-friendly food. Food that will use fewer natural resources in factories and farms, answer the need of increasingly health and planet-conscious consumers, and contribute to positive change in the rural communities where we grow our ingredients.
- We are moving to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
- Donating 200 million meals to food banks and NGO worldwide by 2025.
- Implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of our potato acreage by 2030.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of McCain and each of its establishments to select and employ the best qualified personnel in all facilities and at all locations, to provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees, including upgrading, promotion and training and to administer these activities in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, non-job related disability or other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: NA Potato Manufacturing
Department: Production Lines
Location(s): US – United States of America : Washington : Othello || US – United States of America : Washington : Seattle
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.