Laborer Assistant

Job Summary
We are seeking a detail-oriented and physically capable Laborer Assistant - Farm Operations to join our team at Local Bounti. As a key member of our farm operations team, you will be responsible for assisting operators with various tasks and duties to ensure the safe and efficient preparation, operation, maintenance, sanitation, storage, and organization of plant and equipment.

Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The duties listed below are representative of the essential functions, qualifications, physical demands, and the work environment encountered in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to work and perform the essential functions in this work environment.

• Cooperate and communicate with all team members to efficiently complete work.
• Inspect products to verify conformance to quality standards.
• Assist operators by performing the following duties:

• Supplying materials
• Holding materials
• Holding tools
• Cleaning work areas and equipment
• Lift and dump raw materials, finished products, and packed items, manually or using a forklift.
• Build and fill boxes, or other packaging properly, as instructed, with product.
• Loading and unloading barrels, containers and other items from trucks, machines, or conveyors.
• Mark or tag labels and identification on products.
• Measure amounts of products or weights of filled containers to ensure conformance to specifications.
• Observe equipment operations so that malfunctions can be detected and notify operators of any malfunctions.
• Seal, pack, and store materials and products and stack them in cold room.
• Place products in equipment or on work surfaces for further processing, inspecting, or wrapping.
• Remove products, machine attachments, and waste material from machines.
• Transfer finished products, raw materials, tools, or equipment between storage and work areas of plant and warehouses, by hand or forklift.
• Sanitize, wash, and clean work areas, outside areas, machines, equipment, products, and production areas while wearing appropriate PPE.

Required Skills and Qualifications
* Embrace and exhibit Local Bounti's Core Values.
* Embraces and supports the safety culture at the facility.
* Basic knowledge of the English language, including being able to read, speak, and write to include understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
* Basic knowledge of arithmetic including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
* Knowledge of safe equipment and machinery operations and procedures.
* Basic knowledge of machines and tools, including their operation, uses, and maintenance.
* Ability to adjust the controls of a machine or a process quickly and repeatedly to exact positions.
* Ability to convey information effectively to others.
* Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Education and Experience
High School diploma.
Or 6 months related experience or training.
Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to vibration. The employee regularly works in outside weather conditions and environments both hot and cold.
The noise level in the work environment is occasionally moderate.The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example: two arms, two legs or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down.The ability to time movements in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object.The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull or carry objects.The employee must frequently lift and/or move 10 to 25 pounds and regularly lift and/or move up to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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