Labor Technician~General Labor**MARYLAND/HURLOCK**

Amick Farms

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

Hurlock, Maryland

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Perform various labor tasks on a chicken processing line including deboning, weighing, sealing, and packaging products. Ensure all tasks are completed while maintaining strict food safety, quality standards, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

This job requires good personal hygiene and adherence to health codes, the ability to stand for long periods, and constant focus to ensure product quality and safety. Skills in communication and knowledge of SSOP and GMP are also important. Attention to detail and the ability to follow instructions are necessary for success in this role.

Job Description

  • Thigh Debone
    • Remove the bone out of the thigh using wizard knife.
  • Scale Operator
    • (Weighing product) – Operating a scale, making weight, and depending on location placing a product label on the box that has just been weighed
  • CVP Machine Operator
    • Operating a CVP Machine to seal the plastic bag the product is in
  • Ice or C02 Layer
    • Covering the product with the correct amount of C02 or ice
  • Stack Off
    • Palletizing finished product by stacking product in the correct configuration on a pallet
  • Box Liner
    • Lining boxes with bags
  • Tray Pack
    • Packing trays of chicken to company and customer standards

There are times when additional cutting or trimming is required.  During this operation team members will be required to use either scissors or knives. 

During any of the above task, constant focus and concentration is required to ensure tasks are performed in a way that promotes food safety and quality.

Environment:  

  • Employees work alongside an automated line with either a mechanical conveyor or shackles
  • Increased noise levels due to machinery
  • Varying range of temperatures
  • Damp and wet environment

Requirements:

  • Requires good personal hygiene and adherence to local, state, and federal health codes and standards
  • Ability to stand for long periods of time
  • Constant focus and concentration required to ensure a quality product is produced as well as to ensure safety is maintained from potentially hazardous conditions

Skills and Knowledge:

  • Communication skills
  • Knowledge of SSOP and GMP
  • Knowledge of all product wash areas

Competencies:

Core Competencies

  • Safety
  • Quality
  • Yield
  • Cost
  • Relationships

Team Member Code

  • Safety starts and ends with you
  • People eat what we make
  • Hard works always pays off
  • Doing what’s right is never wrong
  • Communicate, Communicate, Communicate

Job Specific Competencies

  • Consistently perform duties throughout entire shift
  • Follow all written and verbal instructions
  • Adhere to attendance policy
  • Attention to detail

Amick Farms

Founded in 1941, in Batesburg, South Carolina, Amick Farms has always been dedicated to supplying quality chicken products at reasonable prices for our customers. With one small chicken house, a wood fired wash pot and 500 baby chicks, A.D. “Chick” Amick packed fresh-dressed chicken in barrels of ice and loaded them on the back of a B-Model Ford for delivery. Today, over eighty years later, we have grown to more than 3,000 team members, 400 family farm partners, and three totally integrated poultry production complexes—one located in Batesburg, South Carolina, one in Hurlock, Maryland, and one in Laurel, Mississippi—allowing us to actively manage every step of the production process from the egg to the final product, delivered to our customers. Producing over 800 million pounds of quality chicken products annually, quality, integrity, and service are still core values at Amick Farms. We remain committed to meeting ever-evolving customer and consumer needs through a variety of nationally distributed program options.
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