Farm Worker, Aquaculture
Employer
1762 Stan Tabor Road
Macon, MS 39341
United States
Job description
Prime Line, Inc. is a vertically integrated catfish farm with on-site processing facilities. Primary duties are drain and prepare ponds for brood fish, catfish fry, fingerlings, stockers, and food fish. Seine ponds to move fish to appropriate ponds. Pond repair and maintenance. Receive ingredients for feed, mix and prepare feed for fish. Secondary duties include clean, fillet and pack fish in processing plant.
Place spawning cans in ponds, inspect for fish eggs, collect eggs, and transport eggs to hatchery, place eggs in hatching baskets, place baskets in hatching troughs. Inspect eggs regularly, treat eggs as required, collect fry from egg troughs and move to rearing troughs, monitor fry health. In hatchery, clean and disinfect egg troughs, rearing troughs and baskets. Remove spawning cans from ponds.
Place pumps and screens to filter and fill fry ponds. Collect swim up fry and transport and unload into fry ponds. Feed fry, monitor and maintain water quality and fry health, protect fry from predatory birds.
Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload fingerlings into ponds, feed fingerlings, monitor and maintain water quality and fingerling health, protect fingerlings from predatory birds.
Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload stockers into ponds, feed stockers, monitor and maintain water quality and stocker health, protect stockers from predatory birds.
Seine, load, transport, and unload food fish for further processing. Requires workers to operate and maintain trucks, pickups, boom trucks, fish feeders, tractors. Use oxygen meters, aerators, aerator control panels, cell phones, oxygen buoys, seine reels, seines, live cars, boats with outboard motors, pumps.
Weigh fish on scales, sort fish to processing lines, load fish onto heading machines, load fish onto heading machines, load fish onto band saw, cut fish head on band saw, split whole fish belly, vacuum eviscerate whole fish, skin whole fish, load fish onto fillet machines, use knives to trim fillets, size whole fish and fillets, load freeze tunnel, prepare packaging materials, make boxes, weigh and pack fish into boxes, mark boxes, stack boxes on pallets, wrap pallets with pallet wrap, move boxes to cooler or freezer, load trucks with fork lift or pallet jacks or by hand, maintain appropriate records. Uses extruders, pallet jacks, scales, heading machines, fillet machines, band saws, vacuum eviscerators, skinners, knives, pressure washers and computers.
Repair roads and levees, cut grass, spray weeds, pick up trash and debris and establish and maintain drainage systems. Requires workers to operate and maintain trucks, pickups, tractors, scrapers, box blades, mowers and other farm equipment..
Special Requirements
In Mississippi, an employer has the duty to exercise reasonable care in hiring its employees and will be charged with an employees negligence and be liable for resulting injuries if the employer knew or should have known of the employees incompetence. Under Mississippi law, an employer may be liable for the negligent acts of an employee it knew to be incompetent at the time he was hired or because of events that transpire during the course of his employment, or because it knows that the employee was improperly trained.
Drug screening at the expense of Prime Line Inc. is conducted once the job offer is accepted and prior to beginning work. Background checks/drug tests are done to ensure the safety of employees.