Essential Functions
Food Safety and Quality
- Uphold Frick’s Quality Meats’ commitment to the highest standards of food safety, product quality, and sanitation.
- Follow established recipes, formulas, and standard work instructions to ensure consistency and compliance with specifications.
- Identify and report quality issues immediately to department supervisor ensuring only top quality products are produced.
- Maintain awareness of and compliance with all USDA and other regulatory requirements.
Safety and Compliance
- Consistently follow all safety protocols and maintain a clean, organized work area.
- Properly use and maintain required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Comply with OSHA and other workplace safety regulations.
- Operate machinery safely and correctly as instructed.
Production and Efficiency
- Maintain assigned positions on the production line and meet performance expectations in a fast-paced environment.
- Perform basic equipment operation as trained.
- Assist team in preparing product to specifications.
- Responsible for independently logging into Redzone & completing compliance trainings by due dates & using chat feature.
- Work collaboratively with team members to support production goals by following company policies and procedures.
- Maintain awareness of production schedule
- Practice cost awareness by using materials efficiently and minimizing waste.
Communication and Teamwork
- Communicate proactively with the Supervisor regarding issues that they might encounter
- Participate in training and continuing education opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills related to production and food safety.
- Participate in training and skill development opportunities.
Professionalism
- Maintain a positive attitude and uphold Frick’s core values of integrity, transparency, teamwork, service, and quality.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, attention to detail, and commitment to maintaining high morale.
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Take ownership for individual job duties and performance.
Competencies
Food Safety and Quality
Attention to Detail: Ability to follow instructions carefully and notice obvious issues in product or process.
- Quality Awareness: Ability to recognize product defects or deviations from specifications.
- Food Safety Knowledge: Understands and applies USDA, GMP, and company food safety requirements.
- Commitment to Excellence: Demonstrates pride in producing a consistently high-quality product.
Safety and Compliance
- Safety Awareness: Maintains a constant focus on personal and team safety; adheres to safety protocols and PPE requirements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Understands and complies with OSHA, USDA, and company regulations.
- Equipment Operation: Safely operates machinery according to standard procedures.
- Cleanliness and Organization: Keeps work areas clean and orderly to prevent accidents and contamination.
Production and Efficiency
- Work Ethic and Reliability: Dependable, punctual, and consistently performs duties with minimal supervision.
- Time Management: Ability to stay on task, follow pace requirements, and prepare for assigned work.
- Ability to learn tasks, tools, and terminology with coaching and repetition.
- Continuous Improvement: Looks for ways to improve processes, reduce waste, and enhance efficiency.
- Problem Solving: Ability to escalate issues promptly and support basic corrective actions.
- Ability to use required systems for training and basic task completion with accuracy.
Communication and Teamwork
- Team Collaboration: Ability to work cooperatively, support teammates, and contribute to a dependable work environment.
- Adaptability: Responds positively to changing priorities and production needs.
- Ability to demonstrate reliability and model expected behaviors in daily work.
- Ownership and Judgment: Ability to take responsibility for assigned work and follow through on expectations.
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Effective Communication: Ability to share concerns clearly, listen to direction, and ask questions when needed.
- Stand: Must be able to remain in a stationary position for entire shift
- Walk: Needs to constantly move about inside the facilities to access machinery and move product through plant
- Exposure to work: Constantly works in cool, 45-degree, and damp conditions. Frequent visits to areas that are 28-degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally in areas that are 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Constant exposure to loud noises and bright lighting and occasional exposure to flashing lighting.
- Carry weight, lift: Frequently lifts production materials weighing up to 60 pounds overhead for various production needs
- Twisting, turning and bending: Frequently moves production materials weighing up to 60 pounds around production facility
- Use hands/fingers to handle or feel: Constantly operate machinery and other production equipment
- Climb or balance: Frequently ascends/descends stairs and ladders to operate production machinery
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl: Constantly positions self to maintain production requirements and equipment
- Talk/hear: Frequently communicates with co-workers and supervisor(s) regarding production requirements; must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
- See: Must be able to identify defects and inspect product for quality
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Smell: Able to distinguish sweet and bitter flavors when creating varieties of product for customers.
RTE-Boxing Associates are responsible for preparing a variety of ready-to-eat meats for production by performing tasks such as denetting, unracking, and packaging products in an efficient, accurate, and safe manner. This role plays a key part in ensuring products meet quality and production standards while supporting a clean, safe, and team-oriented work environment.
Scheduled hours: 2:25pm- 11:30pm
