Butchery Harvest Lead

Founded in 1979, WG Provisions has provided high quality meats, life-improving biomedical products, and business-building order fulfillment services. Our exclusive meats include roasting pigs, rabbits, specialty meats, and fully cooked meats such as smoked brisket, shredded beef, and pulled pork. WG Provisions has offered quality products and exceptional service proven by our loyal, long-standing customers. We create relationships that deliver the consistent quality and service needed to overcome our customers’ challenges.

WG Roasting Pigs are highly regarded as the highest quality roasting pigs in the market. We pride ourselves in creating the “Perfect Pig”. Our roasting pigs are sold throughout the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico to retailers, food service, and restaurants desiring a high quality and consistent roasting pig. Learn more about our company and Roasting Pig division at https://wgprovisions.com/

Our Butchery offers a friendly atmosphere in a small team environment where we can count on each other. Crew members will be responsible for various roles for harvesting and processing our premium roasting pigs.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including dental, vision, health, paid holidays, vacation time, and a 401k program.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Butchery Harvest Production Lead position is responsible for leading and overseeing the daily harvest and packaging of Roasting Pigs. The Lead will achieve the highest level of productivity, quality and yields while ensuring the safest working environment. This role will provide encouragement to team members in order to build the best team possible and provide training to all team members. The role works to ensure plant conditions are sufficient and sanitary in accordance with the USDA. Production activities will be monitored in accordance with plant policies, programs and standards concerning safety, quality, efficiency, and food safety.

The primary focus of the current opening is for our Pack-Off area. This area leads our pack off team to pack and label our roasting pigs. The lead also oversees the preparation of shipments to cold storage and to customers, working with our sales team and transportation partners to ensure accuracy and timely preparation and delivery of orders. The lead also serves to implement our ERP solution during the pack-off function, which requires some familiarity with computer software and effective communication with our production and sales teams. All leads at the Butchery will be cross trained to help in other areas. This role is specifically responsible for the pack-off function but must also be able to serve in other areas of the production process.

All leads for our harvest process report to our Butchery Plant Manager.

Our current opening is in our Butchery located in Sidney, Iowa. In this facility, we process whole roasting hogs that are distributed throughout the United States.

Key Duties for Butchery Harvest Lead:

Harvest/Production:

· Provide leadership to major daily production tasks including start-up to make sure equipment meets sanitary guidelines and is in proper operating condition and end of day processes

· Lead and follow daily production schedule and achieve specified goals.

· Lead crew to ensure product conforms to specifications.

· Lead crew to ensure products are correctly labeled and identified for proper disposition.

· Lead crew to prevent and minimize rework, discard and/or inedible.

· Perform standard operating procedures of production and inspection functions as directed.

· Provide leadership and expertise in slaughter, harvest, production, equipment to ensure the ability to direct employees to perform the job properly. (Less focus for Pack-off Lead)

· Ability to take on more complex areas of harvest/slaughter/production (less focus for Pack-Off Lead)

· Utilize ERP system to ensure accuracy of product, traceability of product, accuracy of inventory, accuracy of shipments, etc.

· Suggest changes in workflow processes and use of equipment to increase the efficiency to maintain the lowest level of downtime and production costs possible.

· Work with production equipment including pallet jacks and other similar types of equipment

· Successfully complete all necessary production and technical training and skills verification as directed.

Team Training and Development:

· Assist with proper training of team members

· Demonstrated experience cross training across roles in a slaughter facility

· Assist with assigning responsibilities to team members, as required to meet planned production schedules

· Ensure team returns from breaks in a timely manner; notify lead/supervisor before leaving the department.

· Promote an environment conducive to teams, teamwork, and line-driven accountability

· Model attendance, quality, teamwork, setting an example for the crew

· Provide continual leadership and guidance to team members for the purpose of increasing their effectiveness and establishing good working relationships.

· Work side by side with team members to mentor and provide guidance to the team.

Safety:

· Actively promote adherence to plant Quality, Sanitation, GMP and HACCP standards to achieve a finished product within quality control specifications.

· Advocate and maintain a strong commitment to safety in the operating process including but not limited to: PPE, preventing and reporting unsafe acts and conditions, Lockout-Tag out procedures, and Process Safety Management related matters.

· Perform all duties within OSHA and company safety standards: LOTO, wear PPE and maintain safety equipment.

· Maintain a safe, clean, and organized work area.

· Immediately report any accidents or deficiencies Butchery Harvest Manager or Butchery Operations and Quality Coordinator.

· Ensure safety devices are installed and working properly.

· Follows all HACCP, USDA regulations, and other food safety protocols and procedures.

Performs other duties and responsibilities, as necessary.

Qualifications and Skills:

· Technical/Associate degree in a related discipline

· Minimum of 6 months; preferred 12 months of pork slaughter experience using packaging, forklifts, etc and also production tools and knives.

· Preferred previous Lead role in pork harvest and packaging operation or related experience

· Experienced in multiple job duties in pork harvest operation.

· Ability to train others in efficient job duties.

· Ability to maintain high expectations for self and others, demonstrating a dedication to achievement of results.

· Ability to work under pressure and to react to situations with a strong sense of urgency.

· Solid problem solving, multi-tasking and prioritization skills.

· Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements for facilities operating under USDA and OSHA.

· Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and distributed team

· Role model of integrity, sound judgement, personal responsibility, team player.

· Ability to effectively communicate.

· Someone a team can “count on”

Reports to: Butchery Harvest Manager

Job Type: Full- time

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, crouch, bend, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

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

E-Verify

WG Provisions provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that WG Provisions has violated our responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515).

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sidney, IA 51652: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $17 - $20