Position Title: General Labourer - Packaging
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: 2A
Requisition ID: 45340
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
The Packaging Operator is responsible for supporting efficient packaging operations by loading and adjusting packaging equipment, maintaining production flow, minimizing waste, and ensuring product quality. This role operates within a regulated manufacturing environment and requires strict adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), food safety standards, safety protocols, and operational procedures. The Packaging Operator plays a critical role in meeting production targets while maintaining quality, safety, and housekeeping standards.
What you’ll be doing.
- Operate packaging equipment including case packers, case erectors, and case checkweighers.
- Load Wexxars with shooks and reload tapers while performing minor equipment adjustments as required.
- Complete preventative maintenance checks and support equipment changeover activities.
- Ensure all cases are accurately weighed, properly sealed, and correctly coded.
- Change date codes and maintain packaging equipment to meet production demands.
- Minimize packaging material and product waste through efficient operation and monitoring.
- Complete all required TQC/MCE procedures, check sheets, production paperwork, and data entry accurately.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area, including cardboard waste management, rework activities, and hand-stacking as required.
- Communicate effectively with production teams and other departments to support operational needs.
- Promptly report mechanical, operational, quality, and safety concerns.
- Support housekeeping activities and assist in other production areas as required.
- Perform all duties safely, accurately, and efficiently while following company policies and GMP requirements.
This position is based in a regulated manufacturing environment and requires strict adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Employees must consistently follow all GMP, safety, and hygiene requirements, including restrictions on jewelry, personal items, and attire while on the production floor. Compliance with these standards is an essential duty of the role to ensure product quality, safety, and regulatory compliance.
What you’ll need to be successful.
- Successful completion of a 120-day familiarization period.
- Ability to work rotating shifts.
- Willingness to enroll in and complete WHMIS training.
- Ability to safely use all required personal protective equipment and safety equipment.
- Mechanical aptitude with the ability to make minor machine adjustments.
- Demonstrated commitment to workplace safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to accurately complete required documentation.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Satisfactory past job performance.
- Physical ability to lift, pull, push, shovel, climb, and handle materials as required.
- Ability to work in extreme temperatures, high humidity, dusty environments, and noisy conditions while wearing hearing protection.
- Commitment to following GMP, food safety, hygiene, and regulatory requirements, including restrictions related to jewelry, personal items, and production floor attire.
Benefits of the role.
- $33.26, Set schedule/overtime allowances, Attendance incentives, Pay for skills program/education reimbursement, Health and wellness days.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: - Starting at 33.26 CAD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit details are available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): CA - Canada : Alberta : Coaldale || CA - Canada : Alberta : Lethbridge
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
