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Located throughout the country, Cozzini enters more than 65,000 “doors," typically on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis. We have been in business for over 100 years. Cozzini Bros., Inc. offers career opportunities to those interested in working for a national company servicing the food industries with the highest quality cutlery, related products and service. Our current openings are on the day shift in our Sharpening Center in Des Plaines, IL

Position Requirements:

• Must be able to stand in one location for 3 hours at a time.
• Ability to learn to operate 3 separate knife grinding machinery.
• Basic operation and maintenance of assigned machinery.
• Perform proper machine start up.
• Perform basic break downs and wash down.

Monday through Thursday operation: Night Shift

Cozzini Bros. Inc. offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package to include medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, 401k after 60 days of employment. Six paid holidays and paid time off.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $16.00 /hour

Duties and Responsibilities Set up and operate a variety of machinery to produce sharpened cutlery parts and instruments. Sharpening may include hollow grinding, edging, honing, buffing, sanitizing and/or drying various sizes of cutlery product. May also be required to clean and calibrate sharpening machines.

Basic Responsibilities

• Work as part of a Line Team, having responsibility maintaining line throughput and quality during the sharpening process.
• Can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the sharpening process, including, but not limited to: Hollow Grinding, Edging, Honing, Buffing, Sanitizing, Drying, Put-Away processes.
• Rotate through all job tasks rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis.
• Maintain equipment and materials in a neat, clean and orderly fashion. On a daily basis, inspect and perform minor maintenance on assigned equipment.
• Efficiently move dull product from carts in staging and/or storage areas into production area
• Efficiently move sharp product from production area onto carts to staging and/or storage areas.
• Report issues with cutlery and/or knife box quality/quantity variances to management.
• Maintain a clean, neat and orderly work area.
• Report issues and problems to Management.
• Will support and abide by the company’s safety program and all safety initiatives, policies and procedures.
• Operate equipment safely and efficiently. Comply with OSHA and company standards
• Other duties as assigned

Physical and Visual Activities:

• On a daily basis, must be able to remain standing on both feet for a minimum of 3 hours at a time.
• Must be able to frequently communicate and constantly have visual acuity
• Must be able to constantly operate machinery safely
• Must be able to stand and move about the building and/or reach, bend or twist
• Ability to lift up to 35 lbs.

Note: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and competencies required of employees to do this job. Cozzini Bros., Inc. reserves the right to change, add to or modify the above job duties and responsibilities. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties at any time.