Packaging Operator - Royal Canin (Guelph, ON)

About the role

Mars is hiring a Packaging Operator for its Royal Canin facility in Guelph, Ontario. The role covers packaging operations, quality control and close management of the packaging team. Shifts are 12.5 hours long: day 7am-7:30pm and night 7pm-7:30am, with the factory running Sunday 7pm until Friday 7:30pm and possible overtime.

Key responsibilities

• Set up, operate, monitor and change over packaging machines, and stack packaged products in cases or on pallets
• Perform quality control, including micro sampling, quality tests, maintaining CCPs and oPrPs, and reporting quality deviations and pest activity
• Keep ISO 14001, ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, HACCP, GMP and GHP procedures in place
• Perform inventory of raw ingredients, packaging materials and finished goods, and carry out daily monitoring swabs and first-level equipment maintenance
• Work with the extruder operator to meet production planning, and lead the packaging workforce on line
• Carry out housekeeping checks, operational, weekly and hypo cleaning, and provide requested documentation to other departments
• Communicate with the next-shift coworker on machine problems, production progress, bin inventories and quality issues, and complete production reports

Required profile

• Training and/or experience in functional tasks; knowledge of the feed/food industry is optional
• Good communication, leadership, cost consciousness, initiative, self-motivation and teamwork
• Safety, hygiene and quality awareness, and tolerance to a hot environment
• Unrestricted range of motion, colour discrimination, olfactory and texture perception, and depth perception

Required skills

• Knowledge of packaging operations: paper bag machines, plastic bag machines, sampling machine, on-process check-weigher, inkjet, labeler, wrappers, screeners, scales, quality control, forklift and pallet truck operation
• ISO 14001, ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, HACCP and GMP/GHP

What we offer

• A $3,000 sign-on bonus split into two payments of $1,500 at six and twelve months, plus a 4% shift premium
• Base pay of CAD 23.85 - 31.30 at start of employment
• Learning and development support, including access to Mars University
• Industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus