Job Title: Food Production

Location: Summerville, SC

Job Type: Full-time

Job Description:

We are currently seeking talented and dedicated individuals to join our family that are passionate about food safety and keeping food quality at its best.

As a Production Worker, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth flow of meat products through processing machines, conducting visual inspections of products and packaging, and maintaining quality control standards. This position requires manual dexterity, attention to detail, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

Minimum Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a consistent flow of meat products through processing machines.
• Visually inspect products and packaging for deformities, imperfections, and quality control issues.
• Remove and address any identified issues to prevent product rejection.
• Lift, push, and pull products to facilitate material flow.
• Hand-stuff, formulate, and link products using traditional processes with attention to detail.
• Place finished products into pre-formed boxes for distribution.
• Check the temperature of products to ensure they meet packaging requirements.

Physical Requirements:

• Stand in one place for 80% of the shift (8+ hours per day).
• Walk throughout the department for 20% of the shift (8+ hours per day).
• Frequent use of both hands and arms.
• Full and frequent manual dexterity.
• Ability to lift overhead using both arms.
• Bend, twist, and squat as needed throughout the shift (8+ hours per day)
• Must have and be able to wear waterproof steel toe/composite boots

Job Requirements:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Reliable transportation.
• U.S. citizen or authorized to work in the United States.
• Willingness to submit to a drug screen and background check.
• Basic mathematical skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
• Must be willing to wear required PPE and follow required sanitation guidelines
• Military experience welcome

Working Conditions:

• The environment is maintained at a temperature between 28 F and 34 F.
• Ability to work constantly in a refrigerated environment (8+ hours per day).
• Slippery floors when wet due to constant spillage and sanitation.

Due to refrigeration that is required for the products, the room temperature is maintained at a temperature between 28 degrees (F) and 34 degrees (F), therefore candidates must be able to work in this environment constantly throughout the shift. Due to constant spillage and sanitation, floors are slippery when wet.