Position Title: Grading Station Operator
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43185
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
As a Grading Station Operator, you will play a key role in supporting raw material quality and maintaining efficient production flow within the potato house. This position is responsible for accurately sampling, grading, and directing incoming potato loads while upholding McCain’s standards for safety, quality, and operational excellence. This opportunity is available as both a full-time and temporary position, working a 4-on, 4-off rotating schedule.
What you’ll be doing.
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Unload and sample incoming potato trucks and direct loads into appropriate bins
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Ensure potato color and gravity specifications are met during unloading
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Collect approximately 25 lb samples from each truck load for grading
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Weigh, wash, and prepare samples while minimizing material loss
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Deliver prepared samples to potato graders for evaluation
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Maintain cleanliness and ensure proper operation of potato house equipment, walls, and doors
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Accurately enter sampling and grading data into systems
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Communicate effectively with the Shift Manager regarding raw material changes or concerns
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Follow HACCP, GMP, and all safety protocols, including proper use of PPE
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Participate in team meetings and support additional tasks as required
What you’ll need to be successful.
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Grade 12 diploma or GED (considered an asset)
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Previous experience as a Potato Grader or in a similar role (considered an asset)
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Strong teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills
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Proven reliability with excellent attendance and safety record
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Ability to work rotating shifts (4-on, 4-off schedule)
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Physical ability to lift approximately 25 lbs and perform manual tasks
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Comfortable working with cleaning chemicals
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Willingness to complete forklift training certification
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Ability to adapt to changing operational needs professionally
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Successful completion of a 90-day training period
About the team.
You will be part of a collaborative operations team within the potato house, working closely with Shift Managers, graders, and fellow team members. The team is focused on ensuring smooth unloading, sampling, and grading processes while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency to support daily production goals.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: - Starting at 27.41 CAD hourly + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Should this role hold a duration of 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite. This includes the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit details are available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
