Job Description
Manufacturing general helpers at Kroger handle multiple tasks across production facilities, ensuring safe and efficient operations that maintain product quality for grocery stores nationwide. Their efforts directly support the delivery of fresh foods to customers while upholding safety standards during equipment cleaning and material movement.
Kroger operates nearly 2,800 stores across 35 states, focusing on feeding customers with a commitment to diversity and innovation in the grocery industry.
Workers clean machinery using CIP and COP systems, operate a cardboard baler, and assist with hand-packing products onto pallets, collaborating with machine operators and plant teams while lifting stacks of cardboard and managing chemicals with proper safety tags. One genuine challenge involves working any shift as needed while meeting production deadlines with limited supervision.
Compensation details include hourly pay, though not specified; positions are located in manufacturing facilities with flexible shift schedules. Benefits encompass healthcare coverage, flexible scheduling, employee assistance programs, associate discounts, up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement, and career growth through training programs. Applicants must be at least 18 years old for consideration.
Responsibilities
- Clean all equipment properly and timely to ensure safe quality products
- Operate all clean in place (CIP) and clean out of place (COP) systems as necessary
- Clean machinery, facility structures such as racking, windows, walls and exterior of plant
- Ensure all chemicals, buckets and pumps are properly tagged according to safety requirements
- Complete routine paperwork and data entry
- Assist machine operators in gathering production supplies, packaging materials and loading equipment, including dumping boxes and lifting stacks of cardboard
- Assist in hand-packing and hand-stacking product/cases onto pallets
- Safely operate cardboard baler, bottle bagger/de-bagger and other equipment
- Empty and dispose of outdated product in accordance with established guidelines
- Must be able to work around ingredients and/or finished products known to contain food allergens
- Follow established programs, policies and practices to produce safe quality foods that meet regulatory and company requirements
- Accountable to the Kroger Manufacturing Food Safety and Quality Principles
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Flexible to work any shift as needed
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Effective oral/written communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines with limited supervision
- Self-motivated and self-directed
- High School Diploma or GED desired
- 3+ years manufacturing experience desired