Palletizer Operator

Job Category: Logistics/Supply Chain/Distribution/Trans

Requisition Number: PALLE
001923

Posted: April 23, 2026

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: 3426 N Wells St, Fort Wayne, IN 46808, USA

Safety

• Comply with all company safety policies and procedures.
• Take an active role to ensure personal safety and the safety of others is never compromised.

Quality

• Comply with Good Manufacturing Practices as outlined by the plant quality department.
• Complete and document all food safety checks as required by the plant HACCP program.
• Complete and document all product quality checks as required by the plant MCP program.
• Actively participate in preventing and correcting quality related errors.

Plant Citizenship and Interactions (Grooves)

• Communicate and interact with others in a manner consistent with the company’s management philosophy, the “Grooves”.
• Actively participate in team meetings, committees and task forces.
• Comply with the plant’s attendance and other policies to maintain a corrective action free status.

Operational

• Become proficient in multiple skill areas and refresh operational skill sets annually.
• Support hiring process by mentoring and onboarding new team members.
• Lead and encourage problem solving within the Business Unit and Functional Team.
• Communicate and follow up on daily information.
• Be willing to learn and train a variety of skills.
• Complete all required documentation to support plant inventory control, quality assurance, line reliability, damage reduction, and cost tracking systems.

Hardener Operation

• Understand basic hardener operations.
• Operate the hardeners under normal and product evacuation conditions.

Bundling

• Load and operate multiple bundlers (wrappers).
• Make minor adjustments to equipment settings to ensure quality wrap.
• Ensure that the proper materials and quantities have been staged for use.

Palletizing

• Understand the appropriate pallet pattern by product.
• Palletize using manual, semi-automatic and automatic palletizing stations.
• Load and operate the stretch wrapping equipment.
• Ensure that product is properly palletized and ready for storage and distribution.

Input Operator

• Identify product SKUs for palletizing station assignments.
• Complete all required IMREX and Panel View transactions and reports.
• Understand shuttle car and ASRS operations and correct errors as needed.
• Support ASRS inventory process as needed (usually done quarterly).
• Ensure that palletized product is ready for storage.

Currie Auto Palletizer

• Understand basic Currie operations.
• Program daily SKUs.
• Know and understand correct procedure for releasing lanes.
• Identify all aspects of Currie equipment performance and communicate with other operators and maintenance.
• Ensure the quality of all products prior to and immediately following the Currie.
• Manage reject line to ensure product does not spoil.

Shipping Coordinator

• Communicate pick-ups and deliveries with carriers/customers.
• Communicate with warehouses and logistics for order changes updates.
• Enter and release orders in CC Software system.
• Maintain inventory levels for west-coast warehouses.
• Lab 48‑hour hold and reject products.
• Ship and confirm orders in IMREX system daily.
• Maintain pallet program and pallet reconciliation by carrier.

Sanitation

• Understand the safest and most effective cleaning methods used in the hardening, bundling and palletizing areas.
• Conduct basic sanitation preventive maintenance as required.
• Follow the proper cleaning procedure for each piece of equipment used in the hardening, bundling and palletizing.

Environmental Cleaning

• Maintain work area in an “inspection ready” condition at all times.
• Follow the proper cleaning procedure for non-product contact surfaces and equipment.

Measurable Outcomes

• Hygiene, GMP and safety audits improving week after week.
• Daily, weekly, monthly production targets are fully met.
• Effective interaction with the team and takes direction from Machine Operator and Management.
• Quality and improvement initiatives being implemented and maintained.
• De-kitting the line.

• 18 years of age or older.
• Aptitude for automated mechanical processes with good troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, math and problem…