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Packaging
 QPS Employment Group | |
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 United States, Wisconsin, Sussex | |
 Jan 27, 2026 | |
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Position Title: Packaging - 12 Hour Days or Nights
Wage: $17.50/hour Shift: 12 Hour Days or Nights Hours: 5:45am - 6:00pm or 5:45pm - 6:00am Reached a dead end at your current job? Check out how this position can create a new path! QPS Employment Group has a great opportunity available in Packaging at a company in Sussex, WI. This is a potential for hire position. Apply today! Packaging Responsibilities: - Stand in front of a fast-paced assembly line, which moves toaster pastry product from oven, glazing, to final packaging - Oversee product as it moves through the line, ensuring it meets production standards - Remove the bad pastries from the line by hand that do not fit quality standards and place in a specific bin - After the pastries are automatically glazed and individually wrapped in foil by the machine, randomly select pastries off the line and visually verify they have the correct date mark - Place checked product back on the line, so it is able to get manually packaged into boxes for shipment - Off-load groups of three packages from the line and place into a large shipping box - Tape the box shut using a tape gun and place on a pallet in a specific design, ensuring the label faces out - Push the totes on a cart to the machine, where the line leader will empty the contents to start production - Place clean and empty totes at the end of the machine to collect the mixed product as it comes out - Continuously remove the filled totes and replace with empty totes as the machine is running, placing filled totes in designated areas for further processing. If working on cereal line, you will be asked to use a pallet jack to move mixed cereal to packaging line - When product is done running, clean the machine to ready it for the next batch, by sweeping around the area and bringing the proper cleaning supplies to the machine for sanitation workers - Bring mixed cereal to the line by pallet jack, so the line leader can dump it into machine to start packaging process - Grab filled bags and weigh them to ensure correct weight - Place product back onto the line, so it can automatically be placed into a cereal box by the machine - Keep the machine filled with boxes, by removing 50+ boxes at a time and placing them manually into a machine - Make large boxes by hand by folding the corrugate and taping using a tape gun - Off-load four cereal boxes at a time and box in the previously created larger shipping box and pass through an automatic tape machine - Palletize the box in a specific arrangement and ensure the label is facing out - Open up boxed product using a box cutter, and remove the product from the boxes - Check date mark, weigh product, and determine if there are any quality issues - Place into production again to get a new date mark or to be mixed in with heavier/lighter products - Pack correct quantity of finished goods bags into shipping cartons and seals shipping cartons - Palletize finished goods onto shipping pallet - Inspect and make labels and boxes - Perform inspection of finished goods bag to ensure top, bottom and back seal and legible and correct code date Requirements for Packaging: - Able to perform repetitive and fast paced work, in very hot or cold warehouse environment depending on department - Able to stand for 12 hours in one spot, walk, bend, twist, grip, push and pull throughout shift - Able to lift product weighing between 5lbs to 30lbs and push product on carts up to 50lbs, consistently throughout the day - Able to communicate fluently in English - Able to count, add, subtract and perform simple math, such as determining acceptable weight ranges of products IND010 QPS Employment Group is a full-service staffing firm comprised of dedicated and passionate people with over 50 offices throughout the United States. We place great people with great companies in industrial, skilled trades, administrative, manufacturing, general labor and professional employment. Hiring immediately! Why Work with QPS? - Access to sought-after positions with leading employers - Dedicated placement specialists who will guide you through every step of the job search process | |