Processing Lead

Summary/Objective

Provide leadership assistance in the Processing Plant working at various positions as a team member to make sure that food products are processed according to quality specifications and customer needs.

Lead and support team members to ensure rainbow trout products are processed safely and meet quality standards for customers.

Lead team members in the processing of rainbow trout products and ensure quality and safety standards are being met.

• Supervise employees.
• Responsible for product movement from the processing floor through staging area and cooling storage.
• Interface with Innova software systems.
• Knowledge of machinery upkeep and operation.
• Responsible for sanitation duties.
• Communicate and work as a team member.
• Participate in confidential/sensitive discussions.
• Communicate with employees and others through written, oral, and face‑to‑face interactions.
• Assist other team members in completion of work.
• Collaborate with fellow employees to complete tasks and adhere to safety standards.
• Work flexible work schedules with varying hours as required.
• Miscellaneous duties as assigned.

• Leadership skills.
• Ability to resolve conflict.
• Record keeping and organizational skills.
• Ability to operate lift truck.

Primary supervisor for operators within the plant.

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

Typical Physical Activity:
This job involves medium work exerting force occasionally and frequently to move objects.

• Often requires walking, moving or climbing to accomplish tasks.
• Often requires standing for sustained periods of time.
• Occasionally requires stooping and reaching.
• Occasionally requires pushing using upper extremities to press against something with steady force.
• Occasionally requires pulling using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting is required on an occasional basis.
• Ability to use pallet jacks is required on an occasional basis.
• Often requires feeling of products perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly fingertips.
• Repetitive motions are required which involve substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Full‑time position working 5 days a week. Expected hours of work: assigned hours may vary.

None.

• Vast knowledge of fresh and frozen product line, packaging requirements.
• Ability to organize and work well with others as a team member.
• Ability to use Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Exemplary attendance required.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.
• Ability to communicate in English in order to adhere to safety standards.