Job Description:

• 1) Operates console that controls automatic palletizing equipment to sort, transfer, and stack on pallets containers of finished products, such as sugar, canned vegetables, citrus juice, and cigarettes: Reads production and delivery schedules and stacking pattern to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallet, and destination of loaded pallet.

• 2) Observes packages moving along conveyor to identify packages and to detect defective packaging, and presses console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulator or reject lines.

• 3) Turns selector switch on palletizer to control stacking arrangement of packages on pallet and to transfer loaded pallet to storage or delivery platform.

• 4) Supplies loading equipment with empty pallets.

• 5) Stops equipment to clear jams.

• 6) Informs supervisor of equipment malfunction.

• 7) May keep record of production and equipment performance.

• 8) May operate depalletizing equipment and be designated Depalletizer Operator.