Seafood Packaging Operator — Fast-Paced & On-Site

Trident Seafoods; Motley (MN); On-site; USD 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Trident Seafoods in Minnesota produces high quality seafood and seeks a Packager to join our production team. You will tend machines, feed product to conveyors, and ensure accurate packing into preformed pouches while maintaining cleanliness and safety standards.

Responsibilities include counting items, monitoring feed into pasteurizers, inspecting packages for conformity, and reporting irregularities to supervisors.

Qualifications

• Three to six month food manufacturing experience.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to count by multiples 2s and 3s to place correct number of items into packages.

Responsibilities

• Tends machine(s) to feed product to conveyors, hoppers, or other feeding devices.
• Removes product from platforms/conveyors and packs into preformed pouches.
• Counts items packed to ensure compliance with company standards
• Monitors product feed into pasteurizers.
• Places product on grill marker belt.
• Ensures product packages are placed on conveyor according to company standards.
• Inspects filled container to ensure that product is packaged according to specifications.
• Removes irregular product and any foreign material found in product.
• Reviews workspace for cleanliness and safety concerns.
• Disassembles and reassembles the production line and equipment as necessary for cleaning.
• Cleans and Sanitizes production equipment, tools and work area per SSOP.

Skills

Count items and pack accurately

Attention to detail

Read and follow written instructions

Education

3–6 months food manufacturing experience

Job description

Trident Seafoods in Minnesota produces high quality seafood and seeks a Packager to join our production team. You will tend machines, feed product to conveyors, and ensure accurate packing into preformed pouches while maintaining cleanliness and safety standards.

Responsibilities include counting items, monitoring feed into pasteurizers, inspecting packages for conformity, and reporting irregularities to supervisors.