Packaging Specialist at Bonduelle Americas

Position: Packaging Specialist

Department: Production

Reports To: Production Manager

Salary Type: Salaried

Salary Range: $65-98K

Location: CA

Make a greater impact at Bonduelle Americas!

Bonduelle Americas is a certified B Corp inviting people to embrace a flexitarian lifestyle with an expanding portfolio of plant-rich products available in and beyond the produce aisle. We operate four facilities and employ nearly 3,000 Associates in the US.

Bonduelle Americas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Bonduelle (BON.PA), an established global brand with more than 170 years of family heritage bringing the joy of plants to tables around the world. Globally, our ready-to-eat plant-rich food products are grown on 173,000 acres by our grower partners and marketed in nearly 100 countries. Our mission is to inspire the transition toward a plant-rich diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health.

Join us at Bonduelle Americas for an opportunity to advance your career in a culture that places people first. As a valued member of our company, you will work in a mission-driven environment aimed at preserving the planet’s resources while providing healthy plant-based products to millions of consumers around the world.

Position Summary:

The role of the Packaging Specialist is to be a support and liaison between production and maintenance. The Equipment Specialist provides the knowledge of the machine centers to be able to successfully and effectively train SMO, PMO in the operations of the machine center. Also, the Packaging Specialist will be a support for the Packaging Supervisors into the development of their teams by periodically assessing a skills matrix.

When the Maintenance Lead is not on site, the packaging specialist provides the support needed to the Maintenance team.

The Packaging specialist works together with Equipment Specialist to develop daily, weekly AM tasks and startup checklists.

What you will do:

• Develop training for packaging operations team on how to effectively operate and setup the machine
• Develop and maintain a skill matrix for packaging operations to bring packaging operations to the next level
• Develop, organize and maintain both; hard and soft libraries for training manuals, operation manuals and training documents
• Help and support the AM program
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• Physically able to repeatedly lift a 40-pound cases of product
• Technical and Operational experience in packaging equipment (10+ years of experience)
• Basic computer operations and Microsoft Office and Google Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Sheets, Docs, Gmail)
• Thorough comprehension of reading, writing and speaking English, Spanish is a plus
• Willing and able to work overtime and weekends as needed