Harvest Cooler

American Foods Group, LLC; Wright City (MO); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

PTO

Discount meat program

Job summary

America's Heartland Packing in Wright City, MO is seeking a Cooler Sortation Employee to sort, identify, and track beef products in a refrigerated environment, ensuring product flow, quality, and food safety. You will work with production to move items to processing storage and perform accurate data entries.

The role requires attention to detail, ability to stand for long periods, and wearing PPE in cold conditions.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work in a refrigerated, potentially wet and slippery environment.
• Experience in meat processing or manufacturing preferred.
• Knife skills and familiarity with sanitation practices.

Responsibilities

• Sort and identify beef products within the cooler to ensure proper product flow.
• Remove contaminants and trim defects as part of quality control.
• Label, track, and segregate products for inventory and processing.
• Transport products to correct storage locations and record data accurately.
• Follow all food safety, sanitation, PPE, and workstation safety procedures.
• Assist with cleaning and sanitation of work areas and equipment.

Skills

Attentive to detail

PPE safety compliance

Safety procedures

Stands long periods

Cold environment

Visual inspection

Job description

Overview

Job Summary

The Cooler Sortation Employee is responsible for sorting, identifying, organizing, and tracking beef products within the cooler environment to ensure proper product flow, quality, food safety, and inventory accuracy. This position works closely with production to move products to the appropriate processing storage, while maintaining compliance with company, USDA, and food safety standards. Employees must work safely in a refrigerated environment, follow all sanitation and PPE requirements, and support efficient production operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Trimming visual contamination, foreign objects or quality defects from carcasses.
• Removal of SRM using tools such as vacuum or other equipment.
• Using hook, knife or other tools like saws to prepare carcasses for further processing.
• Identify and separate products that require additional trimming, rework, inspection, or further processing.
• Accurately labeling, marking, and tracking product for inventory and production flow.
• Maintaining product segregation to meet food safety.
• Performing visual quality checks and removing contamination.
• Transporting products to the correct hotbox/cooler location.
• Recording production data accurately and completing required paperwork or system entries.
• Following all food safety, sanitation, animal welfare, and workplace safety procedures.
• Wearing required PPE and working safely around moving equipment and production lines.
• Assisting with cleaning and sanitation of work areas and equipment as needed.
• NOTE: this description is not intended to be all inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to work in a humid, hot, wet, slippery, or moving surface at varied heights in and around moving equipment and parts with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience/knowledge of manufacturing environment.
• Previous heavy machinery experience in manufacturing environment.
• Previous agriculture production/beef plant experience.
• Knife skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Be attentive to detail.
• Ability to work safely, wear PPE, and follow instructions.
• Ability to attend work consistently.
• Always be aware of your surroundings.
• Follow all safety, food safety, and animal welfare or sanitary dress procedures.
• Able to stand for lengthy periods of time.
• Display a strong work ethic.
• Be able to work in cold temps.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, or sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Equal Opportunity Employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact Human Resources at the location(s) where you are applying. We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.

Summary

America's Heartland Packing is set to open its doors in early 2025. The 775,000 sq. ft. greenfield project will include a harvest floor, carcass chillers, fabrication area, rendering, further processing area, storage coolers, freezers, and loading docks.

What we offer:

• Competitive total compensation package for you and your family.
• Excellent benefit plan. Benefits include: Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flex Spending Accounts, Voluntary Benefits, PTO, 401k, Long & Short Term Disability, Discount Meat Purchase Program, and more!