Meat Production Assistant

This position handles the final steps in our meat production process: packaging products such as steaks, roasts, sausages, and more, assembling orders, and carrying out customer orders.

This is a full-time role with benefits available and a stable Monday-Friday daytime schedule with occasional overtime and Saturdays required.

This position is a good fit for anyone who enjoys keeping busy, working on their feet, and completing a variety of tasks each day. We are looking for team-oriented people who bring a positive attitude to work and want to help make our customers happy by sending them home with quality products.

Essential functions

• Assist with meat production tasks such as grinding meat, scraping steaks and chops, and cutting stew meat.


• Use butcher paper to wrap fresh products for customers.
  


• Package ready-to-eat meat products by running a thermoform fill-seal package, operating a vacuum sealer, and other packaging methods. 


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  Label products properly using a deli scale and a computer-controlled industrial label printer.


• Carry out orders for customers when required.


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  Assist in receiving and stocking supplies.


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  Follow USDA food safety guidelines.


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  Complete end-of-day sanitation tasks, including sanitizing the packaging room and hosing down the production floor.

Work environment

This position works in a variety of environments including our processing floor and cooked product packaging room. These rooms are kept at cool temperatures. Trips in an out of freezers and coolers are necessary.

Physical requirements

This position must be able to:

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  Fluently communicate verbally and in writing in the English language.


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  Safely work with sharp objects such as knives and scissors.


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  Lift up to 60 pounds.


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  Stand for an 8 hour shift: 2 - fifteen minute rest breaks and 1 - thirty minute meal break are provided during a shift.


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  Operate in a cool packaging environment, as well as operate in coolers kept in the 40º range, to freezers that are kept in the 0º range.

About Lake Geneva Country Meats

Lake Geneva Country Meats is a family-owned and operated company that has been in business since 1965. We combine a USDA-inspected sausage kitchen and custom processing facility with a gourmet retail store. We strive to provide a workplace that treats our team members as human beings first by allowing for flexibility and understanding that life happens. We value people who are passionate about food, want to provide exceptional experiences for our customers, and are committed to working towards always improving.

Education and experience

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  This is an entry-level position with no experience required.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.