Palletizer Operator

Job Category
:
Logistics/Supply Chain/Distribution/Trans

Requisition Number
: PALLE
002189

• Posted :
  September 22, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Showing 1 location

Fort Wayne, IN 46808, USA

Role and Activity

Safety

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

Quality

• Comply with the 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 manor 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

General:

• Become proficient in multiple skill areas and annually refresh your operational skill sets.
• Support hiring process by mentoring and on-boarding 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 to train a variety of skills.
• Complete all required documentation in each area to support the 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 insure quality wrap.
• Insure that the proper materials and quantities have been staged for use.

Palletizing:

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

Input Operator:

• Identify product SKU’s 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).
• Insure that palletized product is ready for storage

Currie Auto Palletizer:

• Understand basic Currie operations.
• Program Daily SKU’s.
• Know and understand correct procedure for releasing lanes.
• Identify all aspects of Currie equipment performance and communicate with other operators and maintenance.
• Insure 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
• Communication 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

General:

• 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.

Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values

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

LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Quality and technical system adherence
• Completion of the required production to plan
• Health and Safety
• Impeccable hygiene standards always
• Clean as you go; use proper cleaning techniques (e. limited water hose usage)
• Number of direct reports (if applicable):

BEHAVIORS AND CORE VALUES:

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