PRODUCTION LEAD BELLINGHAM PLANT

Description

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident’s global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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This job does not provide room and board

Summary: The Production Lead assists in coordinating and monitoring activities of workers engaged in the production process by performing the following duties.

Key Responsibilities:

• Receives and answers questions from workers pertaining to production processes or equipment operation.
• Monitors and expedites flow of materials within production area and makes adjustments when necessary.
• Notifies maintenance workers of equipment malfunctions.
• Tends or operates machines or equipment on production line to substitute for absentee workers.
• Maintains product workflow records.
• Assures compliance with all safety and production practices.
• Trains workers in equipment operation and in processing and safety procedures.
• Communicates with Supervisors, and other Lead personal any problems or concerns.
• Reviews workspace for cleanliness and safety, cleans equipment according to company standards.
• Performs activities of workers supervised

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquires knowledge of Trident’s Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.

This is a nonexempt position with an hourly rate of $22.00 to $26.02.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 1 years’ supervisory experience preferably in food production
• A minimum of 6 months experience in food production or seafood industry
• HS Diploma or equivalent

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is regularly required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

• regularly up to 5 pounds
• frequently up to 10 pounds
• occasionally up to 30 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to distinguish shades of color to identify abnormalities and/or defects in food products.

This is a nonexempt position with an hourly rate of $22.00 to $26.02.