Food Packaging & Shipping Specialist

At Glacial Freeze Dry, you’ll be part of a team that takes pride in producing quality freeze-dried products and doing the work the right way. This role is active, hands-on, and important to making sure products are packaged accurately, handled safely, and shipped properly. If you enjoy staying busy, working with a team, and seeing the results of your work at the end of the day, this could be a great fit.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with employer match; paid time off; paid holidays, including your birthday; reimbursement for safety shoes and prescription safety glasses; employer-paid life insurance; and employer-paid short-term disability coverage.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will:

• Package and label individual products, packs, bulk items, and cases according to company and customer requirements.
• Verify labels, lot numbers, counts, weights, and product information for accuracy.
• Assemble boxes, prepare pallets, stage products, and assist with shrink wrapping and outgoing shipments.
• Prepare shipping documentation, including contents, weights, bills of lading, Certificates of Analysis, and other required documents as needed.
• Receive incoming packaging-related shipments and inspect them for damage, accuracy, temperature requirements, and overall integrity.
• Load and unload trucks, complete trailer inspections, verify temperatures, and maintain required shipping and receiving logs.
• Maintain organized packaging rooms, dry storage areas, and related work spaces using FIFO, stock rotation, and proper product movement practices.
• Monitor inventory levels and communicate shortages, discrepancies, or par level needs to the Fulfillment Manager.
• Clean and sanitize packaging areas, storage areas, equipment, shelves, carts, racking, forklifts, restrooms, breakrooms, and other assigned areas.
• Follow company policies, safety procedures, sanitation standards, food safety requirements, quality expectations, and personal protective equipment requirements.
• Assist other Packaging, Production, Shipping, or Receiving team members as needed.

What We’re Looking For

Required qualifications include:

• Basic math, counting, weighing, and documentation skills.
• Strong attention to detail when verifying labels, lot numbers, weights, counts, and product information.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Ability to work safely with food products and follow food safety, quality, sanitation, and safety procedures.
• Reliability, dependability, and willingness to support packaging, shipping, receiving, inventory, cleaning, and other department needs.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced production, packaging, or warehouse environment.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Previous experience in packaging, production, fulfillment, shipping, receiving, warehouse, food manufacturing, or a related environment.
• Experience using pallet jacks, carts, forklifts, labeling systems, scales, or other packaging and warehouse equipment.
• Familiarity with FIFO, lot tracking, inventory control, shipping documentation, or food safety practices.

Physical and Work Environment Requirements

This position requires the following, with or without reasonable accommodation:

• Standing and walking for extended periods, up to 8 to 10 hours per shift.
• Bending, stooping, twisting, reaching, grasping, and handling materials throughout the shift.
• Regularly lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds.
• Using proper lifting techniques, requesting assistance when needed, and using available equipment or team lifting for heavier or awkward items.
• Using hands and fingers to operate packaging equipment, tools, scales, labeling…