Description
Operate automated palletizing and stretch-wrapping systems to stack, secure, and label cases or bags on pallets for storage or shipment; monitor line flow and quality, adjust settings, clear jams, and maintain materials.
- • Monitor palletizer operation to ensure pallet pattern, count, and quality meet standards.
- • Adjust palletizer settings, guides, clamps, and wrapper tension to match product and pallet type.
- • Operate robotic or conventional palletizers, pallet dispensers, slip-sheet placers, and stretch wrappers.
- • Remove completed pallets from discharge, stage for shipping, and segregate nonconforming pallets or cases.
- • Regulate conveyor flow and palletizer speed to balance upstream and downstream operations.
- • Stop or reset equipment during faults, clear jams or misfeeds using proper lockout/tagout, and report issues to a supervisor.
- • Secure loads with stretch wrap, straps, corner boards, or top sheets as required.
- • Replenish pallets, slip sheets, stretch film, labels, and other dunnage materials.
- • Inspect incoming cases or bags and remove damaged, open, or mislabeled items before palletizing.
- • Keep infeed and pallet build areas clear of debris and damaged materials.
- • Verify pallet counts, layer configurations, label accuracy, and weight if applicable.
- • Perform basic checks, cleaning, lubrication, and minor adjustments to sensors, rails, and grippers.
- • Monitor infeed conveyors and accumulation to prevent pile-ups, misalignment, and blocked conditions.
- • Build stable pallets to pattern and run automatic stretch-wrap cycles; add protective materials as needed.
- • Start up equipment, log into the HMI, select correct recipes, and engage controls.
- • Record pallet counts, case counts per pallet, rejects, downtime, and materials used.
- • Prepare finished pallets for shipment by labeling, wrapping, and applying load tags or placards.
- • Supply empty pallets and slip sheets to dispensers and remove wrapped pallets with pallet jack or forklift when required.
- • Print and apply pallet labels and lot or shipping information; verify barcode readability.
- • Maintain 5S and sanitation in the palletizer area; sweep, clean sensors and rollers, and empty waste.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
