Crab Shaker

Department: Westport Crab

Location: Westport

Compensation: $17.75 / hour

Description

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are an 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, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Quality, Teamwork, Productivity, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary

To weigh, clean, remove meat, inspect, grade, and pack crab for sale. Responsible for timely and accurate crab processing.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry baskets of product weighing up to 50 pounds to work station
• Use mallet and anvil in a repetitive motion to remove the crab meat from the shell.
• Inspect meat for shell and defects
• Follow health and safety guidelines
• Perform other duties, as assigned.
  
  

Required

What You Bring to Pacific Seafood

• Experience with the utilization of food processing equipment, sanitation, and food safety
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience with the safe operation of forklifts and powered pallet jacks
  
  

Physical Requirements:

Duties

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:

• Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• 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.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
  
  

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

Working Conditions

The working 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:

• Utilizes PC and other standard office equipment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• If lengthy time working in the server room is required, personnel will be provided with noise cancelling headphones.
  
  

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.