Nights Entry Packaging Team Member

As a Nights Entry Packaging Team Member at Winland Foods, your main responsibilities will include operating packaging machines, monitoring quality control equipment, and troubleshooting any technical issues. You'll also be diving into various tasks like maintaining safety standards, cleaning your work area, and operating powered industrial trucks. Knowing how to operate vertical form-fill-seal and case packing equipment is crucial as these are integral to our production process.

To qualify for the Nights Entry Packaging Team Member position at Winland Foods, you'll need a high school diploma or GED and preferably over a year of experience in a manufacturing setting, particularly in food processing. Additionally, having basic computer skills to operate equipment touch screens is essential. A strong mechanical aptitude, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of GMP and OSHA requirements are also highly regarded.

The work environment for a Nights Entry Packaging Team Member at Winland Foods is dynamic, located within a manufacturing facility that may experience temperatures ranging from 90 to 115 degrees with a bit of noise from machinery. You'll be working on various tasks that may require lifting up to 50 lbs, standing, and being aware of your surroundings. Safety gear such as steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, and hearing protection is mandatory to ensure a secure workplace.

Winland Foods offers a comprehensive benefits package for Nights Entry Packaging Team Members that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with a 401(k) plan with a company match. Additional benefits include short-term and long-term disability, a health savings account (HSA), legal and identity protection services, and critical illness coverage. This ensures you're covered in various facets of health and financial security.

For a successful Nights Entry Packaging Team Member at Winland Foods, key skills include a keen attention to detail, strong organizational capabilities, and excellent communication skills. Being mechanically inclined with the ability to perform basic maintenance tasks is beneficial. Familiarity with good manufacturing practices and OSHA guidelines is also significant for ensuring safety and quality in the production process.

When answering this question, highlight specific roles where you've operated machinery, followed safety protocols, or contributed to a team in a manufacturing setting. Be sure to mention any food processing experience as it is particularly relevant for this position.

Discuss your understanding of safety procedures and how you comply with them daily. Share specific examples of how you've contributed to maintaining a safe work environment through situational awareness or adherence to personal protective equipment regulations.

Explain your approach systematically: identifying the problem, checking the machine's manuals, or using logical deduction to find potential solutions. Mention any tools or software you have experience with that helps in diagnosis.

Discuss techniques for staying cool, hydrated, and focused. You might talk about the importance of breaks and following protocols for extreme heat, emphasizing your commitment to working safely.

Good Manufacturing Practices are guidelines that ensure products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards. Explain how you follow these in your previous roles, such as strict adherence to hygiene practices, maintaining equipment, and monitoring production processes.

Share your enthusiasm for the food industry or for teamwork in a manufacturing environment. You can also mention how the night shift schedule suits your lifestyle or how you admire Winland Foods’ commitment to quality.

Mention your strategies for maintaining focus and accuracy, such as setting personal benchmarks, understanding the bigger picture of production goals, and accepting the nature of manufacturing while ensuring quality remains a priority.

Share a relevant experience that illustrates your time management skills and ability to collaborate with your team to meet production goals. Highlight how you kept calm, organized your tasks, and performed well under pressure.

Discuss any specific machines you’ve operated, what your responsibilities included, and emphasize your comfort level with troubleshooting and performing maintenance on such equipment.

Share an occasion where collaboration was key to reaching a goal—a successful project, a challenging task you tackled as a unit, or how you supported team members through their responsibilities.