Packaging Technician

**Your daily mission**:Pack, inspect, and box the best coffee on the planet.

**Who Are We?**

We roast Canada’s #1 whole bean coffee. Our Arabica beans are 100% certified Organic and Fairtrade. We’ve been doing this for over 26 years, smack dab in the middle of the Rocky Mountains.

And our coffee beans aren’t the only ones winning awards around here. Our human beans kick ass too Kicking Horse Coffee has been a certified Great Place to Work® since 2015. In 2018, we were named the #1 Best Workplace in Canada. Whoa We believe creating a workplace that offers great careers _and_ access to an exceptional lifestyle. It’s why we’ve made a commitment to become a living wage employer.

The spirit of Kicking Horse Coffee can be summed up in five words: awake, courageous, intentional, sophisticated, and love, yep, love. These are the values at our core, the foundation of our culture.

**Who Are You?**

You’re the whole package. Pun intended.

You go with the flow. You are flexible, adaptable and ready to tackle whatever the day brings. Change? Scary? Nah, you can handle it. You work best in a role where you can be on your feet, moving around quickly, and keeping busy with an upbeat environment and crew. You're also curious. Curious about our coffee, our equipment, and all the processes in between. You are comfortable flying solo, but you’d rather work with a team. Because what’s better than one Packaging Technician? 30+ Packaging Technicians, obviously.

**What Will You Do?**

Not to brag, but our Packaging Line Technicians are the best baggers in the biz. Mainly due to their stealth ability to package, inspect, box, and prepare to ship the best coffee in the country, all while focusing on safety and efficiency. But it could also be due to their lightning-fast speed or their chameleon-like adaptability. In this role, you'll learn and do all of the above while working closely with your team to perform daily clean-ups, room preparations, and relentless quality control. Being a Line Technician involves repetitive, physically demanding work in a team setting. But that’s not all. Our team exercise their minds, too. Over time, your leaders will train you on our equipment, helping you to become a master machine operator.

**Responsibilities**
- Follow standard operating procedures to bag and box our beans
- Inspect all finished products to ensure quality control standards are being met.
- Operate packaging equipment using HMI touch screen.
- Enter data into ERP software, allocating materials and maintaining inventory.
- Perform daily clean-ups and room preparations.
- Follow all health and safety policies and procedures in place.
- Special project tasks as assigned.

**Qualifications**
- Experience working in physically-demanding role, working on your feet 8 hours a day, lifting, bending, and twisting
- Previous work experience in a manufacturing or production setting, and operating production equipment or packaging machinery is considered an asset.
- Basic computer skills and data entry experience is required. Experience using Microsoft Excel is an asset. Open to learning and developing new skills is a must
- Superb manual dexterity and the ability to perform quick movements.
- Physically able to stand for eight hours a day while lifting, bending, twisting, and sometimes even dancing. Ability to lift and pull up to 50 pounds.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.

**Culture Characteristics**

We are looking for people that embody our purpose, soul, and spirit. We want to work with folks that will nurture and enhance our culture of belonging, inclusivity, and love. In practice, this means you are:

- **Awake**: Reliable and ready to wake up and kick ass. You have excellent time management skills combined with a strong sense of urgency. You are aware of how you impact the world and those around you, as well as how the world, impacts you.
- **Intentional**: You do everything with good intention. You act with kindness, respect, and professionalism.
- **Courageous**: You are willing to adapt, learn, and grow as you navigate change. You have a strong curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and improve.
- **Sophistication**: You annhiliate mediocrity with strong attention to detail and high personal standards for quality.
- **Love**: You have a positive and fun disposition. You have a “mug half full” approach to life. You are a collaborator by nature and enjoy working alongside a big team.

**Additional Info**
- We work eight-hour days, Monday to Friday.
- We are hiring for a full-time, permanent position. We run two production shifts: AM Shift (6:00 am - 2:00 pm or 6:30 am - 2:30 pm) and PM Shift (2:30 pm - 10:30 pm or 3:00 pm - 11:00 pm) and require some flexibility to work the opposite shift.

**Perks to Pique Your Interest**

We believe that when individuals thrive, communities thrive. At Kicking Horse Coffee, we offer a wellness inspired, experienced based compensation and benefits package.