About us

Home Place Pastures is a small business in Como, MS. We are professional, agile, innovative and our goal is to connect consumers who want top quality, local, ethically raised meat directly with our farm and our producers' farm, thereby creating a viable alternative for consumers and farmers to the commodity meat industry..

Our work environment includes:

• Modern office setting
• Food provided
• Growth opportunities

**Overview:**

Home Place Pastures is a 5th generation regenerative farm in Como, MS specializing in grass fed beef and pasture raised pork. We are seeking a key team member to manage production in our USDA harvest and processing facility on our farm. This position will involve process and personnel management and will require organizational and leadership skills.

Objectives

Learn and follow establishment food safety plan

• HACCP plan
• Humane Handling Plan
• SOP’s
• SSOP (sanitation standard operating procedures)
• Pre-operational and post operational logs, temperature logs, food safety records

Learn production software system

• Learn lotting system for harvest and production and how to set up and maintain lots throughout production
• Learn our labeling and packaging system to ensure all products are accurately labeled and packaged and entered into inventory system properly

Provide strong floor leadership and system development

• Help CEO and COO standardize workflow and train employees to implement more efficient practices
• Lead team to maintain efficiency goals and sanitation standards. Help increase skill and discipline with production crews
• Maintain an attitude of constant improvement and pride in our mission and work.

Learn to operate and develop a preventative maintenance plan for equipment

• Equipment includes bandsaws, grinders, portioners, formers, and packaging machines.
• Learn basic operation, sanitation, and maintenance for equipment
• Have an organized binder with a maintenance schedule, tasks to be completed, and a notes section. Train equipment operators to complete this list at designated frequency.

Oversee establishment product sampling

• Weekly carcass samples taken for lab analysis
• Water samples
• Finished product testing

Goals

• Increase carcass throughput and utilization
• Hit company key performance indicator target for labor per carcass for beef and pork
• Improve establishment organization and sanitation
• Build and manage a skilled, productive team

Qualifications

- Proven management/ leadership skills

- Production/ ops experience with a strong prefernce for meat or food production

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights

Experience:

• Manufacturing: 1 year (Required)
• Management: 1 year (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Como, MS 38619 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Como, MS 38619: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person