Job Description
Position Summary: This role will disassemble, clean, sanitize, reassemble, and test-run all elements of the line seven scaling and feeding system prior to the first shift start up.
Responsibilities/ Duties: Include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Minimum expectations include but are not limited to:
- Wash meat buckets, sticks, automatic linking systems, pallets, miscellaneous small parts daily.
- Operate garbage and cardboard compactors.
- Keep Formulation area adequately supplied with clean buckets.
- Keep Stuffing area adequately supplied with clean sticks.
- Occasionally check formulation and compactor areas to prevent accumulation of garbage and cardboard.
- Wash plastic barrels, sweep outside areas, minor welfare upkeep is all done weekly.
- Take responsibility in your work to produce a safe and quality food product. Reporting all food safety and quality related problems to your supervisor, manager, or to the QA department to initiate action.
Supervisory Responsibility: No.
Specific Knowledge, Skills, Licenses, Certifications, Etc.:
- Required education is less than a high school diploma; no prior experience or training necessary; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Ability to read English and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiple and divide with tens and hundreds.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one-or two-step instructions.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/ or move more than 100 pounds and occasionally lift and/ or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet, humid, refrigerated, or freezer conditions consistent with working in a food processing facility. The noise level in the work environment is very loud. The employee is regularly exposed to extreme cold and vibration. Company provides rubber gloves, metal gloves, cooler coats, sleeve protectors, aprons, bump caps, hair and beard nets, and ear plugs.