Processing Plant Operator- Trainee

Summary and Objective

Aid in the Processing plant in departments and all positions as a team member to make sure that food products are processed according to quality specifications and customer needs.

Classification: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Plant Manager

• Responsible for Product Movement.
• Assure quality and food safety and personal safety are observed.
• Knowledge of machinery upkeep and operation.
• Tracking and rotation of product.
• Ability to perform sanitation tasks as assigned.
• Communicate and work as a team member.
• Participate in some discussion about confidential/sensitive matters.
• Communicate with employees and others through written, oral, and face-to-face interactions.
• Assist other team members in completion of work.
• Follow HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) compliance guidelines.
• Communicate with fellow employees to complete tasks and adhere to safety standards.
• Ability to work flexible work schedules with varying hours as required.
• Knowledge and adherence of GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices).
• Inspect product coming out of various machines to ensure proper removal of waste and proper cuts.
• Operate equipment as directed by management per safety protocols and operating instructions.
• Interface with maintenance crew to ensure equipment operations are consistent with product quality standards; alert maintenance or management when equipment or product quality falls below standards or there are safety concerns.
• Work with sanitation crew to ensure cleanliness of area equipment and ensure food safety standards are adhered to.
• Maintain appropriate housekeeping and sanitation procedures within the plant, wash down station regularly and as required.
• Provide prompt, friendly and courteous service to internal and external customers.
• Continually pursue sustainability of natural resources with every decision, decreasing waste and being conscious of individual choices.
• Advocate positive change within our plant and company, empowering one another.
• Other duties as required.
• Always work to produce products people can trust by recognizing poor quality coming off the processing machines or at your station and communicating with management.
• Rotate to assigned locations as instructed by the lead.
• Push and pull hoppers and carts as needed.

• Fill orders per special customer requests and work to deliver in a timely and efficient manner.
• Prepare boxes and packaging as required to meet customer orders.
• Palletize and stack boxes according to established methods and practices.
• Package product safely in accordance with quality standards while working toward approved run rates.
• Assist other departments as needed.
• Operate hand jack in a safe manner.

• Sort fish according to specification while paying close attention to detail and always working toward continual improvement.
• Assure the proper size of fish loaded into the correct machine.
• Operate hoppers in a safe and efficient manner according to best practices.
• Monitor quality of cuts and assure supervisor is notified when quality degrades.
• Receive fish in the holdings ponds as assigned and follow proper procedures to process all received fish in a safe and efficient manner.

• Complete all tasks including equipment operations and knife handling based on required safety guidelines.
• Load machines and operate equipment working on reach established run rates for the machine.
• Inspect and trim fish, remove bones and fat while preserving as much of the fish as possible; must continue to work toward reaching established run rates for the assigned stations and lines.

• Ability to communicate both verbally and in written form.
• Record keeping, organizational skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Safety.
• Continual Improvement.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

The worker is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions: protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise. The worker can be subject to cold and wet conditions.

• Often requires walking or moving to accomplish tasks.
• Often requires standing for…