Position Title: Poly Operator
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43145
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 Poly Operator is responsible for operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting packaging machinery to ensure efficient production and high-quality output. This role plays a critical part in ensuring finished products are properly sealed, coded, and compliant with safety and quality standards while supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the plant.
What you’ll be doing.
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Operate and maintain packaging equipment such as case packers, tapers, conveyors, and metal detectors
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Ensure bags and cases are properly sealed and coded according to specifications
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Conduct routine quality checks and accurately record results on operator check sheets
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Troubleshoot equipment issues by observing performance and diagnosing mechanical problems
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Repair and replace defective parts using hand tools and test equipment performance after adjustments
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Perform daily cleaning, sanitation, and lubrication of machinery
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Follow Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) procedures prior to performing maintenance work
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Support Lean Manufacturing (McCain Competitive Edge) initiatives across Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery (SQCD)
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Maintain a safe work environment by adhering to policies and reporting hazards
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Support production demands through flexible scheduling, including overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed
What you’ll need to be successful.
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High school diploma or GED required
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Mechanical aptitude; experience with industrial equipment is considered an asset
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Ability to read and interpret safety rules, manuals, and procedures
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Basic math skills including addition, subtraction, percentages, and ratios
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Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
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Ability to troubleshoot and resolve mechanical issues
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Willingness to work onsite in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
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Ability to stand for long periods and lift up to 35 lbs regularly (up to 60 lbs occasionally)
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Strong communication, teamwork, and adaptability skills
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Completion of Operator Training Program certification (required)
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Basic familiarity or willingness to learn touch screen computer systems
About the team.
You will be part of a dynamic production team focused on delivering high-quality products in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The team works collaboratively with maintenance, quality, and leadership to ensure operational excellence, safety, and continuous improvement while meeting production demands.
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.
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 23.65 USD 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 benefits details 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): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
