Food Processing Labourer

Work site environment

• Odours
• Hot
• Cold/refrigerated
• Dusty
• Wet/damp
• Noisy

Work setting

• Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
• Slaughter houses

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Food safety/handling skills
• Transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials
• Remove filled containers from conveyors
• Manually pack goods into bags and boxes or other containers
• Feed and unload processing machines
• Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
• Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties
• Clean machines and immediate work areas
• Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
• Remove bones from meat
• Remove feathers and singe and wash poultry to prepare for further processing or packaging
• Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Manual dexterity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Fast-paced environment
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Work under pressure
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

• Reliability
• Team player
• Punctuality

Benefits

Health benefits

• Disability benefits
• Health care plan
• Paramedical services coverage

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement
• Bonus
• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance
• Pension plan

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning/training paid by employer
• Other benefits
• Parking available