Crown Holdings - Owatonna, MN
posted 3 days ago
Full-time
Owatonna, MN
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
About the position
The Palletizer Operator is responsible for safely operating the palletizing machinery to ensure that only quality finished cans are properly loaded and packaged on pallets for shipment to the customer. This role involves managing machinery set-up, inspecting products for compliance with standards, and maintaining cleanliness and safety in the work area.
Responsibilities
- Manage machinery set-up and adjustment and inspect products to ensure compliance to standards
- Operate the controls of the palletizing machine to load proper configuration of cans, slip sheets, and top frames onto each pallet
- Stand up tipped cans, replace voids, and remove jams to maintain standard production
- Visually examine cans for defects and discard as appropriate
- Monitor larger patterns to ensure pallets are properly packed and replace missing cans
- Visually examine pallets, top frames, and slip-sheets and remove if defective
- Check drops and conveyor system when flow is stopped and clear minor jams as necessary
- Report equipment malfunctions or can quality issues to the Team Leader or Back End Maintainer
- Maintain cleanliness of work area and follow safe working procedures
- Maintain proper production ticket printing records
- Complete all required process control checks as specified
- Maintain a safety awareness attitude in daily performance and be alert to the safety of fellow employees
- Change out a roll of strapping when coil runs out
- Operate and clear jams on the strappers
- Operate all controls and switches on lower conveying
- Troubleshoot and correct problems in the palletizing process
- Perform other job-related duties as required or assigned
Requirements
- Able to read and understand date codes and pallet tickets
- Know how to operate a computer to generate pallet tickets and understand the procedures for application
- Ability to learn and understand overall can quality requirements and identify defects
- Ability to learn quality requirements of packaging
- Ability to learn basics of the can-making process
- Basic data entry skills
