Welcome To KanPak® – Your Complete Beverage, Yogurt and Dessert Partner!

KanPak® is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of the very best beverage, yogurt and dessert solutions. Aseptic technology is at the heart of many products we create, allowing all KanPak® products to ship and store without refrigeration for up to 12 months, but it’s our state-of-the-art beverage manufacturing capabilities and exceptional customer service that really set us apart from competitors.

Coffee beverages, creamers, yogurt, frozen desserts, and specialty beverages – no matter what kind of product you’re looking for, we can deliver. Our aseptic processing and packaging makes our solutions more convenient, efficient and environmentally friendly.

We are seeking a energetic, skilled​ Leaker Lead for opening in our facility in Arkansas City, KS. 

We operate 24 / 7, 7 days per week.   

Shift is 8am-4:30pm this opportunity will require flexibility to work weekends and overtime.

Job Summary:

Oversees and coordinates up to 15 individuals who are responsible for collecting product samples, sorting and restacking pallets, relabeling product and cases, and completing job specific forms.

BENEFITS

At KanPak, a golden state foods company, we believe that investing in our associates strengthens our culture and fuels our growth. We care about your well-being, and will support you with the following:

• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid leave, holiday, jury duty and bereavement.
• Comprehensive benefits package to support our associates and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Legal, Life), Retirement Plan
• Associate Development via Education Reimbursement, virtual courses and classroom development experiences

• Coordinate KanPak Quality activities and operations to meet objective for quality, food safety, integrity, regulatory compliances, cost, safety and customer satisfaction at KanPak
• Participate in formulating and administering division’s short and long range goals and objectives for business growth
• Ability to lead, organize, train, and direct team with little to no supervision
• Ability to make informed decisions in the absences of management.
• Communicate effectively with team members, management, and cross-departmentally
• Disseminates information from upper management to team
• Ability to run the powered pallet jack, stand-up reach forklift, and sit-down forklift
• Disseminates tasks required for restacking, sorting and sample collecting
• Coordinates with warehouse to ship pallets/samples to facility
• Ability to use the scan -gun
• Performs checks of products and package integrity
• Upload paperwork in Excel and manage tasks on SharePoint
• Create labels and pallet tags
• Order supplies as necessary
• Ability to fill in in absences of team members for coverage
• Completion of Master Cleaning Schedule tasks
• Maintain weekly scheduling and delegate where team members will function best
• Perform other duties as assigned by Supervisor/Manager

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 1 yr of Warehouse or Quality experience preferred.
• 1 year forklift experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office products

Competencies/Job Skills:

• Detail Oriented
• Serve as a team member by working with others to accomplish a job
• Maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information
• Communicate effectively with other team members, management, and cross-departmentally
• Ability to work with little supervisior

Physical Activity Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.  The employee is frequently required to climb up and down stairs.  The employee is occasionally required to use hands to fingers, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

KanPak, LLC encourages diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran

Applicants only; No Recruiters please.

KanPak, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and, as such, affirms to recruit, hire, train, and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. KanPak will not discriminate against persons because of their disability, including disabled veterans, and will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities.