General Laborer

About Kerry

About the role

The General Laborer position has two main job components: 1) basic line tasks on our cereal/ingredient packaging lines, and 2) cleaning tasks.  All GL’s rotate assignments throughout each workday.  This is Kerry’s entry-level production job. 

Key responsibilities

• Palletize, shrink wrap, and record and certify quantities.
• Perform cleaning duties such as sweeping and sanitizing.  Cleaning duties often require working at heights using a scissor-lift.  During changeovers, GL’s may work entire shifts of cleaning duties.   
• Perform varied line duties such as checking code dates, aligning bags on conveyors, refilling cardboard stock, moving product and materials with a pallet jack, filling and weighing bulk product containers, assembling boxes, etc. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and skills

• High school diploma or GED preferred, but not required.
• Must be able to tolerate the above-listed physical and environmental demands of this position with or without accommodations. 
• Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.

• Must have some work experience doing manual labor within the last 5 years.

• Previous manufacturing experience preferred.

  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 sit, stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; fingers to grip, and talk or hear. May at times need to stoop, kneel, or crouch. May occasionally lift heavier items with assistance. The employee may lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. Pallet loading responsibilities call for the ability to lift 50-pound boxes from mid-torso height to the floor at a frequency of 20-30 times per hour.