Red Gem Growers & Packers located in Nar Nar Goon in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne is a Quality Assured grower and packer of Potatoes and Onions for the Australian and Overseas Markets including the major supermarkets. We are currently looking for a passionate and driven individual to join our production team.

Kicking off within the production packing team, you will have the opportunity to learn all aspects of the packing line and then use this knowledge within the production a warehouse as a forklift operator. Your employment will be on a Casual basis Monday – Friday, between the operating hours of 6am – 2.30pm and be able to work loading trucks on a monthly rotating roster on a Saturday or Sunday for 4-6 hours dependent on production demands.

In this role your duties will include:

• Packaging & labelling finished product
• General cleaning and housekeeping within the production area
• Assisting Machine Operator by verifying that correct packaging/crate tags/best before dates are in use.
• Reporting any quality food safety risk to management
• Movement of product across production areas driving the forklifts
• Loading and unloading trucks as per our Quality Control procedures.
• Completing daily forklift checklist
• Meeting all OH&S & GMP requirements.
• Ensuring forklifts daily routine checks are completed
• Weighing of inwards goods and recording weights as required

You must have:

• Hold a valid LF Forklift license
• Must be comfortable with consistent manual handling/loading/unloading and lifting
• Ideally have previous production and/or machine operating experience
• Must be physically fit complete manual repetitive lifting when required

Interested? Please forward your resume asap.