Job Description

Job Title: Kitchen and Fulfillment Crew

Location: Juneau, Alaska - local candidates ONLY

Start date: Immediately

Close Date: Open until filled

Pay: starts at $17-21/hr. DOE, 4-day work week

About Barnacle Foods: Grow with us! At Barnacle, we strive to connect people to unique Alaskan ingredients through familiar, everyday foods like hot sauce, salsa, and pickles. Our kitchen and warehouse team is the heart of Barnacle. It's a fast-paced job, with a high energy team and music bumpin' all day long. Become part of a fast-paced, high energy workplace with a fun, positive, and supportive work environment.

Specific Duties of Kitchen and Fulfillment Crew Members

Preparing ingredients and using equipment to turn kelp into delicious, everyday foods

• Learn everyday. We are a small and growing team, how we operate changes frequently
• Wild harvesting and processing of Alaska kelp
• Collaborating with others to clean and sanitize the processing area, dishes, and equipment
• Carefully weighing, recording, and assembling products following detailed procedures
• Working on the production line – filling, inspecting and boxing jars
• Completing training to meet Alaska food handling requirements
• Maintaining safety protocols with particular attention to machinery and electrical equipment

Fulfilling orders from Barnacle’s customers located all over the country

• Packaging products following different protocols for retail, wholesale, and online shipping
• Neatly and efficiently fulfill orders, paying close attention to quality and accuracy

The ideal candidate is:

• A highly motivated, self-starter
• Able to work in a fast paced environment
• Able to work on a team and be trusted to work independently
• A quick learner with the ability to pay close attention to detail
• Familiar with food safety protocols and knows their way around a kitchen
• Enthusiastic and open minded

Requirements

• Maintain a strict level of personal and workplace hygiene
• Comply with food safety protocols for food processors
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. and work on feet all day

Physical demands and work environment:

The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Physical Demand: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands, handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance, stoop; bend or crouch; talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift/carry and/or move up to 50 pounds safely. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The job requires most of the day to be spent on feet, standing.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to weather conditions and other elements prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is high at times.

TO APPLY

• Email JEFF@BARNACLEFOODS.COM with subject ‘Crew Member Application - YOUR NAME’
• Share two professional references

APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS

Barnacle Foods is an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity in its workplace. We hire qualified candidates and make all employment-related decisions based on job-related qualifications, without regard to characteristics such as race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by law.

Who is Sealaska? Established in 1972, Sealaska is the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska. Our 23,000 shareholders are Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people with more than 10,000 years of ancestral ties to the oceans, forests and communities of Southeast Alaska. We serve the twin goals of economic prosperity and environmental protection. Barnacle Seafoods, LLC is a subsidiary of Sealaska.

We are committed to providing the best possible climate for maximum development and goal achievement for all our employees. As a subsidiary of a Native-owned company, Barnacle Seafoods, LLC is proud to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, with respect for the cultural traditions in the communities where we operate.

Barnacle Seafoods, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. However, preference may be extended to an enrolled member of a federally-recognized Indian Tribe.*

*“Indian Tribe” means an Indian Tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 668; 43 U.S.C. 1601) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.