Seasonal Seafood Processor - Local
About the role
At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.
Summary
To properly process various species of seafood, ensuring maximum use and yield of product. Consistently maintain a high production pace in all areas of production. This position does not offer housing. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of Charleston, Oregon for all scheduled shifts.
Responsibilities
- Be a role model in projecting and applying The Pacific Group Diamond Philosophy (Productivity, Quality, Excellence and Teamwork) and promote teamwork at all times.
- Inspect and grade product.
- Walk to all picking tables and collect tips.
- Place product in containers or on conveyers.
- Run tips through tip machine and collect the meat.
- Weigh and clean product.
- Sanitize work area and equipment.
- Place product in proper packaging as instructed.
- Assist with workspace, plant clean-up and upkeep.
- Adhere to all sanitation and product quality policies.
- Communicate quality issues to supervisors and leads.
- Maintain plant safety at all times.
- Perform other duties, as assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
- Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Preferred
- Prior experience with food processing equipment
- Prior food safety experience
- Prior experience in a processing environment
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is:
- Standing, particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Walking to move about on foot to accomplish tasks.
- Using hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
- Reaching by extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Grasping by applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word, especially when conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and to receive detailed information through oral communication.
- Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Constantly required to use close, distance, and peripheral vision with ability to judge depth perception and adjust focus.
- Constantly required to reach with hands and arms.
- Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:
- Wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold.
- Work around heavy equipment and machinery.
- A usually loud noise level.
Benefits
- Paid sick time
- Employee purchase program
- Employee assistance program providing confidential professional counseling, financial and legal assistance at no charge to team members and immediate family members