Fish Processor
Employer
375 Whittier St
Whittier, AK 99693
United States
Job description
RFI Response: The fish processor job at Great Whittier LLC is 100% manual labor requiring no education or experience. Training will be provided. The position is land-based in a building or dockside. Feed fish into the machine. The processor paces the fish on a belt with pins. The pin is set into the gill plate of fish. The machine does the rest. All automated: the headless fish falls into another conveyor that flips it belly side down to go into the gutter then the gutter pulls the salmon into itself with a special belt. The head drops onto a conveyor belt which goes to a
grinder, the guts drop on to another conveyor belt to get separated then drop onto another conveyor to go to the grinder after being separated. Once inside the gutter the machine
automatically cuts and removes all guts. Check the fish for any debris left on it from the machine. The fish is expelled out the other end of the gutter machine to be checked by processor for any debris left behind from the machines. Monitor the machine for jamming. There is 1 processor station monitoring the machine for jamming, and when that happens the machine is stopped and opened fish removed, and then the machine is started back up. The machine is turned on and off by the processor feeding the heading machine. Clear jams. A processor will be assigned to the task of lifting the side of the machine (it is designed with a release to be lifted easily for clearing) when the gut machine jams and clear the jammed machine. The processor does nothing with the machine but remove jammed fish. All mechanical work is done by a machine repair person that is not a processor. The processor is just there to keep the system free of jams. Because the fish vary in size there can be a few jams an hour in the machines. Grade fish. Build boxes for product, pack boxes or cartons, weigh cartons, stack on pallets or load in
freezers. The boxes are stacked on the pallet by hand. For frozen, the product is loaded into fiber totes by the glaze machine then checked and weighed by hand by the processor at the
scale. How the products are stacked depends on the order, but all are stacked and wrapped by hand. Load/unload freezers and shipping containers. Sort fish on the dock.
Original JDs: Processors convert the raw product into a processed, marketable product. They sort fish, tend and operate head and gut machines, inspect the products, load and unload freezers, weigh, package and label the product. They clean the factory area on a regular basis and perform other work as directed. Processors may work in any of a number of areas of the operation including the factory, the freezer containers. This is a land-based processing facility, and fish are pumped from the boat to the dock.
Special Requirements
Physical strength and stamina to handle standing for long periods, cutting and sorting fish.
Ability to work in cold and wet conditions for extended periods.
Manual dexterity for handling and cutting fish.
Attention to detail for quality control and inspection.
Follow strict food safety and sanitation guidelines.
May assist in all loading and unloading operations.