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JOIN OUR TEAM!

Thank you for your interest in becoming a part of our team here at Chelan Fruit.  Chelan Fruit is committed to providing you with a safe, friendly work environment.  Come be part of our team!

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SEASONAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Apple & Pear

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FULL TIME JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Northern Director of Production

Reports to:       Vice President of Operational Excellence

Department:   Overall Packaging Production of The North

Supervises:      Production Managers & Supervisors at both Manson Growers and Chelan Fruit

FLSA Status:     Exempt (Salary)

Pay range:        $150,000-$170,000 DOE

Closing Date: 9/8/2023

Vision: Deliver a sustainable farm-to-family tree fruit experience.

Mission: We passionately grow and partner with growers to serve high quality fresh fruit to consumers. We improve the lives of our growers, employees, and partners.

Role Summary:  As a Northern Director of Production, you will oversee the production process, coordinating all production activities and operations. Organizing workflow to meet specifications and deadlines. Supervise and evaluate performance of production leadership.

Values: Demonstrates behaviors which contribute to the growth and achievement of our mission:

• Integrity
• Excellence
• Innovation
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Positivity

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lives our Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values.
• Serve as an accountable leader and quality hiring advocate.
• Supervises team by providing coaching, performance management, and ensuring compliance with appropriate laws and practices and requests for information.
• Ensures excellent leadership is provided to employees, applicants, managers, and other community members.
• Completes performance evaluation and planning (PEP) on employees in a timely and constructive manner.
• Works with management to understand current and future needs and develops process improvement plans for apple and pear production.
• Participates in intra-departmental and inter-departmental efforts for continuous safety, quality, and productivity improvement.
• Designs methods for continuous improvement in the delivery of services by soliciting internal and external feedback, using best practice models and organizational goals.
• Provides counsel to management team on policies and practices regarding employment issues.
• Participates in the strategic planning process and directs team to achieve the plan goals and objectives.
• Leads efforts in continuous improvement innovation.
• Prepares budgets, develops business plans, identify opportunities for improving budgets.
• Promotes and completes required training.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Monitor employees behaviors to our values
• Monitor employees efficiency and quantity
• Supervise the training of supervisors and employees
• Oversees the responsibility of programming and operating sizer computers
• Overall responsibility of payroll timecards and other records
• Collaborates with sales team on packing needs
• Overall responsibility of overseeing of repacking/repackaging process
• Applicable supervisory responsibilities include; training, coaching, planning, assigning and directing work, reviewing performance, performance improvement process of employees when necessary
• Must adhere too and set the example pertaining to all company policies and programs
• Must be available for flexible hours, overtime and weekends
• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience:

• Education in engineering, manufacturing or computer science preferred
• At least 5 years of experience/training in production preferred
• Previous supervisor/leadership experience required
• Knowledge of grades, sizes, defects, packing requirements and procedures preferred
• Knowledge of Apples & Pears preferred
• Food safety knowledge
• Regulatory compliance knowledge

Certificates & Licenses:

• First Aid card

Pre-Employment Requirements:

• Drug test & background check required

Equipment/Technology Skills:

• Ability to operate and oversee packing equipment; sizer, defect/color sorter, pressure tester, scale, ORP, etc. preferred

Physical Requirements/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to occasionally perform various activities that require, sitting, standing, walking, pulling/pushing objects, climbing, grasp & reach
• Ability to speak clearly & communicate with others
• Must have good vision, smell and hearing
• Ability to occasionally lift 40 lbs. from floor to waist level
• Ability to adapt to changes, delays or unexpected events in the work environment; ability to manage competing demands and prioritize tasks; ability to change approach or method to best fit the situation.

“Chelan Fruit provides reasonable accommodations to assist qualified individuals to perform the essential duties/requirements their job requires. The description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements and serves as merely a summary rather than a complete listing of duties. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve. This job description does not constitute a contract as employment is at will.”

Send Cover Letter and Resume to alissas@chelanfruit.com

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Refrigeration Operator

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Operate facility in accordance with company standards.
• Walk the catwalks and hallways and make sure nothing is wrong with the equipment.
• Be frequently on call.
• Be willing and able to respond to plant dialers when called.
• Monitor the water treatment chemicals as needed.
• Communicate with the supervisor on necessary setpoint changes.

Education & Experience:

• Knowledge of Refrigeration systems.
• RETA Certification preferred but not required.
• Technical School Degree a plus.

Pre-Employment Requirements:

• Drug test & background check required

Certificates & Licenses:

• Forklift certification (preferred but not required)

Equipment/Technology Skills:

 

• Experience working with industry equipment including ammonia screw compressors, BPR’s, liquid valves, condensers, pump.
• Ability to maintain CA logs.
• Ability to maintain Machine room and compressor logs as it maintains to Mechanical Integrity.

Physical Abilities:

• Ability to frequently perform various activities that require; sitting, standing, walking, pulling/pushing objects, climbing, grasp & reach.
• Must have good vision, smell and hearing
• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, fingers, and feet accurately and handle precise movements
• Ability to occasionally lift 40 lbs. from floor/ shoulder level

Mental/Other Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to adapt to changes, delays or unexpected events in the work environment; ability to manage competing demands and prioritize tasks; ability to change approach or method to best fit the situation
• Ability to maintain focus for extended periods of time; ability to complete projects with resourcefulness; ability to synthesize complex or diverse information; ability to use intuition and experience to complement existing data
• Ability to follow instructions, both in written and verbal format; ability to respond to management direction; ability to complete tasks on time or notify the appropriate person with an alternate plan when necessary
• Ability to maintain satisfactory relationships with others, excellent customer service skills and a good overall understanding of appropriate human relations
• Ability to make prudent and timely decisions; ability to exhibit sound and accurate judgment; ability to explain reasoning for decisions
• Ability to identify and/or prevent problems; ability to formulate alternative solutions to problems when necessary; ability to transfer learning from past experiences to new experiences of similar nature
• Ability to complete duties, on time; ability to edit the accuracy and thoroughness of one’s work as well as the work of others; ability to constructively apply feedback to improve performance, ability to generate ideas to improve and promote quality in work
• Basic English ability
• Basic mathematical ability to add, subtract
• Basic reasoning ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

Workplace Environmental Conditions:

• Ability to tolerate potential harsh weather conditions for short or long periods of time
• Exposed during a shift to constant or intermittent sounds at a level sufficient to potentially cause hearing loss or fatigue
• Injury exposure to workplace hazards, warehousing machinery

“Chelan Fruit provides reasonable accommodations to assist qualified individuals in order to perform the essential duties/requirements their job requires. The description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements and serves as merely a summary rather than a complete listing of duties. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve. This job description does not constitute a contract as employment is at will.” 

Full benefit package includes, medical, dental, vision, long term disability, life insurance, 401k, 401k match, paid vacation, paid sick, holiday pay and FSA.

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Persons interested in a job opportunity at Chelan Fruit should submit their résumé to Alissa Senyitko in Human Resources:

Chelan Fruit
Attn: HR Director
P.O. Box 669
Chelan, WA 98816

Fax (509) 682-6156
Email: hr@chelanfruit.com 

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