Berry Global Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.

At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com

We have Packer II positions availible at Berry Global- Monroe, La. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Follow and support all Company safety, GMP and ISO policies.
• Maintain a safe work environment by following safety policies.
• Perform required quality checks and understand the quality standards.
  • Quality of the product.
  • Insure the correct boxes are used.
  • Insure correct labels are being applied to the boxes.
  • Insure correct amount of product is placed in the boxes.
  • Insure correct product is placed in the boxes.
  • Reports bad quality product to Section Lead.
• Maintain good housekeeping.
• Reads “Traveler” – Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Checks special instructions.
• Must pass electric pallet jack certification.
• Work in the Packing area, lines LD 3, 4 &12, lines HD 12 & 21.

Packing Area

• Set up tapers and change tape rolls.
• Set up and trouble shoot box erectors.
• Set up label applicator
• Safe operation of bin lift
• Safe handling of the bin gates.
• Know pallet stacking formations for all orders.

In Line Packer

• Safely pulling of plastic and picking up scrap.
• Help string up down stream equipment.
• Know pallet stacking formation for all orders.
• Safe handling of hand taper and replacing the tape roll.
• Manual box making.
• Operates winders
• Uses a J-Knife safely to cut and tuck product.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• High School diploma or GED, preferred.
• Experience in a team-work oriented environment a plus.
• Working knowledge of extrusion/converting equipment and process desired.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Ability to use and read a ruler.
• Ability to read and understand a traveler.
• Ability to document quality and weight on bag check sheets.
• Language skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, procedure manuals and checklists.
• Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Reasoning Skills: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral and diagram or schedule form. 
• Basic PC knowledge.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions for 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 required to work around moving machinery or electricity requiring a high level of safety awareness. Employee is required to work around moving equipment, forklifts and must be able to wear appropriate PPE.  Employee may be required to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted while performing job duties; push or pull up to 100 pounds.  Employee may reach, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, bend or twist up to 66% of the work shift.