Overview:
The Pictsweet Company is growing! We are currently seeking Production Associates to join our vegetable processing facility in Santa Maria, CA.
Applicants can apply through SELECT Staffing Agency 805-###-####, EXPRESS Employment Agency 805-###-####, or VOLT 805-###-####.
This position is Temp to Hire. Pay rate is $18.00 per hour.
Responsibilities:
- Inspects, grades, and sorts raw vegetables for preparing, processing, and freezing.
- Examines, classifies, and separates produce on conveyor belt according to grade, color, and size of product.
- Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign material such as metal, glass, wood, plastic, stems, leaves, insects, etc.
- Must notify superintendent, supervisor or QC Inspector immediately upon finding glass, rocks or animals (i.e. bird, rodent, amphibian, etc.)
- May trim product with a knife or paring tool.
- Maintains work area clean.
- Will don personal protective equipment (PPE) before commencing work.
- Follows all safety guidelines set forth by the Company.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Ability to work a 12-hour shift.
- Ability to work a 7-day week; including holidays.
- Ability to work a rotating shift if necessary.
- Must have reliable transportation.
Qualifications:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may regularly work in outside weather conditions and is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee may regularly work in a cold environment with frozen vegetables.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
- Pictsweet is a drug-free workplace.