Description

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident’s global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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This job does not provide room and board

Summary: The Tiromat Operator will set up, adjust and operate the machines that perform the packaging functions of weighing, marking, labeling, packing, or sealing containers by performing the following duties:

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepares and starts machine and observes operation to detect malfunctions of machine.
• Alerts maintenance of breakdowns and mechanical problems
• Makes minor adjustments or repairs such as changing film or dies, calibrating scales, adjusting guides, setting metal detector, or clearing away damaged product containers.
• Notifies Quality Assurance of any packaged product that may not meet the required Critical Control Points.
• Weigh packages manually per company specifications.
• Feeds product to conveyors, hoppers, or other feeding devices, and unloads packaged product.
• Inspects filled container to ensure that product is packaged with proper seal and date according to company specifications.
• Replenishes packaging supplies such as wrapping paper, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels.
• Mounts supplies on spindles or places supplies in hopper or other feeding devices.
• Keeps equipment and area clean in accordance with company specifications.
• Records production information per company specifications.
• Dismantles and cleans equipment according to standard sanitation procedures then reassembles it.
• Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquires knowledge of Trident’s Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 months food manufacturing experience preferred but not required.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to climb ladders to elevated platforms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

• regularly up to 5 pounds
• frequently up to 25 pounds
• occasionally up to 30 pounds.