General Labor

Location: Cape May, NJ

Department: Plant/Operations

Compensation: Starting at $20.77 hr.

Job Title: General Labor

Position Summary

General Labor team members play a key role in supporting daily production operations within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. This position performs a variety of duties on a rotating basis, including ingredient handling, equipment support, packaging, quality checks, and general production assistance while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Job Duties

The duties listed below are representative of the role and may be adjusted based on operational needs. Employees may be required to perform additional tasks as assigned by management.

Essential Duties

These duties directly and substantially support the purpose of the position. The following responsibilities are typically performed on a rotating basis:

• Scale and transport ingredients for production use
• Examine products to verify conformance with quality standards
• Open rejected cans as directed
• Operate meat dumper equipment and transfer raw materials into batch containers
• Perform kitchen and production prep work
• Load and unload items from machines, conveyors, and conveyance systems
• Operate equipment as needed, including material transfer carts, shovels, and electric can openers
• Hand palletize 8 oz. 6-pack, 12-pack, and other finished cases
• Perform glass dump duties, including lifting and dumping multiple boxes of empty bottles onto conveyor lines (up to 15 lbs. total per lift) throughout a 10-hour shift
• Perform repetitive motion tasks related to bottle dumping and line loading
• Work in the Cooker area, including pushing and pulling heavy baskets on dollies
• Load cans onto conveyors for production runs
• Build cardboard boxes and packaging materials
• Seal cardboard boxes for shipment
• Pack cans into boxes according to production specifications

Additional Duties

• Assist in other production departments as assigned
• Comply with all company policies, procedures, safety rules, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• Maintain a clean, organized, and sanitary work area
• Support production efficiency and teamwork across departments
• Perform other duties as assigned by management

Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Employees in this role are required to wear the following PPE as applicable:

• Bump cap
• Hearing protection
• Hair net
• Beard net (if applicable)
• Eye protection
• Gloves
• Proper slip-resistant footwear
• Company uniform or smock

Work Environment

This position is based in a food manufacturing facility where teamwork, safety, attendance, and adherence to quality standards are essential to success.

Physical Requirements

All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Includes those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
• Hearing
• Vision: Attention to the surroundings when operating a forklift.
• Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Degree of physical exertion required for the position.

• Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 20 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force constantly to move objects

Environmental conditions the employee will be subject to in this position.

• Inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• Noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or the whole body.
• Hazard: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases or poor ventilation.
• Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

Education/ Experience/ Skills Required

• High School diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to read/write, speak and comprehend English and/or Spanish

About Bumble Bee Seafoods

The Bumble Bee Seafood Company is passionately pursuing its purpose of feeding people’s lives through the power of the ocean. We are an iconic 120-year-old year-old fishing company that consistently aims to deliver delicious, healthy, and affordable food to consumers while working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. Bumble Bee is firmly anchored in a commitment to connect the world to the ocean by re-defining sourcing, producing, and enjoying products from and inspired by the ocean.

Bumble Bee’s full line of seafood and specialty protein products are marketed in the U.S., Canada and over 50 markets globally under leading brands including Bumble Bee®, Brunswick®, Clover Leaf®, Snow’s®, and Beach Cliff®. For more information about the company, visit TheBumbleBeeCompany.com. For product information, visit www.BumbleBee.com.

Bumble Bee Seafoods is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request accommodation, contact Bumble Bee Foods, LLC Human Resources Representative.