General Laborer - 1st, 2nd 3rd

As a leader and innovator in the snack food industry for over 50 years, J&J Snack Foods provides branded snack foods to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets across the U.S. Its products include such icons as SUPERPRETZEL, ICEE, and Dippin’ Dots along with other key brands like LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, The Funnel Cake Factory Funnel Cakes, and Hola Churros. J&J also has a strong presence in bakery providing cakes, cookies, and pies to some of the largest grocery and convenience retailers in industry. Our company continues to deliver record sales led by a talented team and a commitment to “Fun Served Here”. POSITION SUMMARY: Packaging pretzels into the proper bags or boxes, make sure the bag or box is coded correctly and ensure the packaged material is acceptable to our customers. Hand Tying and Hand Slicing product (pretzels) to meet customers’ expectations, quality expectations and effectively keep the line in motion to limit downtime. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Weighing raw and packaging products maintaining product integrity to product specifications Measuring raw and finished product maintaining product integrity to product specifications Must be capable of using digital scale to weigh product Must be capable of understanding units of measure to measure the length of the product. Equipment adjustments when product is out of specifications Hand scoring and Tying Pretzels Hand loading pretzels to pans Hand loading boards of product onto carts Moving racks of pretzels to and from the proofers and retarders Putting raw pretzel trays on the tray unloaders Scoring top of pretzels Inspecting pretzels throughout the entire process and removing cripples/defects Must be capable of standing on your feet for periods of 8 hours. Per shift, with exceptions of breaks or lunches, and maintain an acceptable pace of operations. Must be capable of withstanding temperature ranges of 55 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Must be capable of counting to 130 and demonstrate basic math skills. Must be capable of cli