Fresh Meats Professional Job Fremont area,Nebraska USA,Manufacturing / Production

Job Title

A producer-owned pork processor, comprised of 200 dedicated Midwest family farms, focused on providing customers with quality pork products they can trust, in a culture that fosters innovation and opportunity.

Job Summary

The employee will cut carcasses into its primal pieces including deboning, trimming, sorting, injecting, cutting, and packaging meat to required specifications while ensuring that health and safety standards are met.

Education, Licensure and Experience

Prior harvesting or processing experience in a USDA inspected meat facility preferred.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be a minimum of 18 years of age and must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Include the following:

Remove bones, trim, skin, separate, sort or cut standard or premium cuts of meat to specifications in preparation for further processing or packaging.

Grind pork meat.

Use knives and power tools to process meat.

Set up, adjust, and operate food processing production equipment/machinery.

Clean equipment or machinery on production areas.

Perform specialized fresh meat processing tasks.

Expected to work hands on at high speeds.

Follow all company rules for food and employee safety.

Collect data on all products and analyze the data to ensure products meet all food and safety requirements and customer requirements.

Make on the spot analysis of sample products, determine if there are blood clots in the meat, review meat for any membranes or foreign objects that would be harmful to consumers.

Conduct visual checks and adhere to product specification requirements throughout the manufacturing process to maintain the desired product quality results.

Maintain adequate knowledge of the product and the equipment to ensure safe operating procedures are followed.

Suggest changes in workflow process and use of equipment to increase efficiencies of the department and/or production, to maintain the lowest level of downtime and product cost possible, with the goal to create and implement new protocols, which can improve efficiencies or eliminate risks that can affect the Food Safety and Quality in our products.

Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package which includes:

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Company matching Retirement Plan
Paid time off
Short term and long term disability
Referral program
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Plans

Wholestone Farms is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.