Order Builder (1st Shift)

Perricone Farms, a leading citrus juice supplier located in Fort Pierce, FL, is seeking an Order Builder, to join our team. This is fast-paced position which offers long-term, consistent employment with a competitive benefits package, including but not limited to Health, Vision, Dental, Life and 401K.

Pay Rate: Competitive hourly rate 

Shift / Hours: 1st Shift; Monday - Friday @5am;10-12-hour workdays; possible Saturday (If needed)) 

Job Duties:

As an Order Builder, you will be working in a cooler environment with a range of job duties, including but not limited to the following primary tasks:

• Comply with all environmental regulations including GMP’s, HACCP and OSHA
• Maintain a clean and safe environment while observing all PPE standards and precautions.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures, as well as FDA standards.
• Maintain high standards QA, QC, and sanitation for both machines and products.
• Maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe work area.
• Build orders according to assigned load tickets using industrial power equipment.
• Manually lift and move product to restock and repack ensuring date code accuracy and proper rotation.
• Responsible for meeting productivity requirements and frequently exposed to fumes and loud noise from forklifts and trucks.
• Responsible for pulling orders based on pick ticket to accurately build orders for loading onto delivery trucks.
• Clean and repackage the damaged product, load full-service route trucks, and make sure the loads match the outgoing tickets.
• Operate powered lift trucks, floor sweepers, pallet jacks and forklifts safely, with a 0% incident rate.

Drug Free Workplace:

• Notifies supervisor of unusual problems.
• Works in accordance with all company policies and procedures.
• Follows health and safety guidelines. Maintain and keep work area according to cGMP.

Food Safety Requirements/Responsibilities:

• Comply with all Plant, State and Federal OSHA, EPA, FDA, HACCP, and SQF regulations.
• Conduct all verification activities to assure finished product comply with food safety and quality specifications.
• Participates in the yearly review of the food safety system.
• Assist in the maintenance of Food Safety and Quality system.
• Responsible for Non-GMO SGS Supply Chain Standards.

Organizational Relationships:

• Position reports to Shift Manager

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish helpful.
• Forklift certification is a plus but not required.
• Experience in using warehouse equipment (e.g., forklifts, pallet jacks)

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. 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 exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions and extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions as associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.