Job Description

Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced production environment? We are looking for a Meat Packaging Leader to help drive safety, quality, productivity, and team engagement within our packaging operations. If you're ready to make an impact and be part of a company committed to Do Good, Be Great, and Scale Excellence, we'd love to hear from you.

Summary of Position:

The Packager I Lead is a hands-on position reporting to the Meat Production Supervisor who is responsible for helping ensure work is completed safely, accurately, on-time, and on-budget. This position leads by example, maintaining a positive, team-member-empowered environment where beneficial changes to departmental operations, safety, and process are understood and embraced. Assisting with multi-departmental communication (to HR, other Ops leaders and Sales) is necessary to address pain-points and contribute to solutions.

Schedule: Night Shift Sunday-Thursday 10:00pm-6:30am (end times may vary slightly based upon business needs)

Responsibilities

• Successfully complete Packager Utility, Packager and Packager I training.
• Use Leader Standard Work (LSW) for daily, weekly, monthly tasks.
• Assist with ensuring the execution of processes resulting in producing finished goods safely, accurately, and on-time to both internal and external customers.
• Embrace a data driven approach to allocating resources and completing tasks.
• Assist with communicating weekly grinding department schedule and daily assignments.
• Be a daily mentor to production team members by encouraging good behaviors and coaching underperforming behaviors following Fortune’s mission/vision/values.
• Attend (and lead in place of Production Supervisor) production room huddles to communicate and discuss safety, quality, productivity expectations (KPI’s), and general current events with production staff.
• Actively participate in weekly “check-ins” with the Meat Production Supervisor to clearly communicate pain-points/success stories regarding KPI’s, staffing, team member performance, interdepartmental/company concerns and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Help create a safe working environment and supporting facility safety initiatives:
• Understand and assist with ensuring the facility HACCP plan is followed daily.
• Assist with the creation and training of Job Instructions (JI) and Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
• Assist (and sometimes lead) employee and food safety corrective action investigations.
• Assists the Meat Production Supervisor communication effort for the department:
• Daily communication with other meat room leaders.
• Sales/Warehouse staff concerning product outs, shorts/allocations and other customer satisfaction considerations.
• Purchasing concerning raw material issues.
• HR regarding timeclock and general personnel discussions.
• Maintenance/Sanitation ensuring the smooth operation of production room equipment.
• Collaborate with room leaders embracing training opportunities.
• Participate in inventory control activities.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:

• 1 plus years of foodservice production experience.
• Good communication skills in English (written and verbal).
• Ability to calculate basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Basic understanding and ability to use MS Office Suite.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions and supervising instructions.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours, when needed.
• Previous machine operating experience.
• Previous kitchen experience preferred.

Fortune Fish & Gourmet is an equal opportunity employer.

Our Mission is to elevate meals and lives by uniting unmatched product quality and selection with responsible sourcing, faithful stewardship, and unparalleled commitment to our customers’ and team members’ success.

Our Vision is a world in which we can all:

Do good. Be great. Scale excellence.