Seafood Processor - Local

Pacific Seafood; Kodiak (AK); On-site; USD 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Seafood in Kodiak is seeking a Seafood Processor - Local to join our Kodiak Processing team. This full-time role ensures proper processing of various species, maintaining high production pace and product quality while following our Diamond Philosophy.

You will inspect and grade product, move items to containers or conveyors, sanitize work areas, and support plant safety. Prior experience with processing equipment or food safety is preferred; training is provided where needed.

Qualifications

• Required: None
• Preferred: Prior experience with food processing equipment
• Preferred: Prior food safety experience
• Preferred: Prior experience in a processing environment

Responsibilities

• Be a role model in promoting The Pacific Group Diamond Philosophy and teamwork.
• Inspect and grade product.
• Walk to all picking tables and collect tips.
• Place product in containers or on conveyors.
• Run tips through tip machine and collect the meat.
• Weigh and clean product.
• Sanitize work area and equipment.
• Place product in proper packaging as instructed.
• Assist with workspace, plant clean-up and upkeep.
• Adhere to sanitation and product quality policies.
• Communicate quality issues to supervisors and leads.
• Maintain plant safety at all times.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Tools

Food processing equipment

Job description

Seafood Processor - Local

Department: Kodiak Processing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Kodiak

Compensation: $18.91 / hour

Description

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family‑owned, excellence‑driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary: To properly process various species of seafood, ensuring maximum use and yield of product. Consistently maintain a high production pace in all areas of production.

Key Responsibilities

Duties include but not limited to:

• Be a role model in projecting and applying The Pacific Group Diamond Philosophy (Productivity, Quality, Excellence and Teamwork) and promote teamwork at all times.
• Inspect and grade product.
• Walk to all picking tables and collect tips.
• Place product in containers or on conveyers.
• Run tips through tip machine and collect the meat.
• Weigh and clean product.
• Sanitize work area and equipment.
• Place product in proper packaging as instructed.
• Assist with workspace, plant clean‑up and upkeep.
• Adhere to all sanitation and product quality policies.
• Communicate quality issues to supervisors and leads.
• Maintain plant safety at all times.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

What you bring to Pacific Seafood

Required:

• None

Preferred:

• Prior experience with food processing equipment
• Prior food safety experience
• Prior experience in a processing environment

Other Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities Required:

• 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 print and speak simple sentences.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is:

• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Constantly required to use close, distance, and peripheral vision with ability to judge depth perception and adjust focus.
• Constantly required to reach with hands and arms.
• Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the team member is exposed to:

• Wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold.
• Work around heavy equipment and machinery.
• The noise level is usually loud.

Benefits

Total Compensation:

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:

• Paid Sick Time
• Product purchase program
• Employee assistance program providing confidential professional counseling, financial and legal assistance at no charge to team members and immediate family members

Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.