What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sausage Production Operator position at Sailer's Food Market & Meat Processing?
Consistently process, grind, mix, and weigh raw animal materials. Properly stuff ground beef and hang various sausage products in preparation for further cooking and/or packaging.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Tends to the sausage making machine that mixes ingredients to make sausage, according to specific recipes.
- Weigh ingredients and add them into a mixing machine.
- Starts machine that mixes ingredients. Empty mixed ingredients into containers.
- Wrap, trim, produce sausage, chop meat, stuff meats
- Receive merchandise in the Production Department.
- Labeling & inventory of custom and private label orders
- Cleaning machines and maintaining equipment
Grinding:
- Grind meat products
Mixing:
- Run meat through machines
- Season meat
- Maintain proper water/moisture content for products
Stuffing:
- Stuff meat in plastic sheers
- Casing meat
- Hang sausages & snack sticks in smoke trucks.
Education/Experience:
- Meat processing experience preferred.
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- High school diploma or equivalent is required
- Basic mathematical skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
- Strong attention to detail
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good organization skills as well as time management
- Punctual, dependable and reliable
- Ability to work independently or as a team when needed
- Maintain a clean and safe work area
- Desire and ability to follow general food safety practices and guidelines as set by the plant and the USDA (GMPs, HACCP, SOPs, SSOPs, SQF systems)
- Must be able to write, speak and read English
- Mechanical aptitude is a plus but not required
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
Moderate to heavy lifting and walking - lifting/carrying to 60 lbs., pushing/pulling to 60 force lbs., reaching, turning, standing, squatting, stooping/bending, equipment operation (meat saw, bone scraper, knives, slicer, band saw, scales, wrapping machine). Must be able to work effectively in refrigerated/cooler environment.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $18.00 - $21.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Salary : $18 - $21
