Job Description

Position Facility: Holton

Our manufacturing members are the heart of our organization. Members of our manufacturing team, which includes machine operators, packaging, shipping and more, take pride in ensuring we produce only the highest-quality, most consistent products for our customers and consumers. If you’re passionate about making a difference, we want you to help make our products, processes, communities and each other better.

Position Overview

Do you want to work for a company who cares about you, your growth and development as well as makes safety number one? If so, Johnsonville is the place for you. Johnsonville is the No. 1 national sausage meat processor and is looking for someone who wants to be a part of our Johnsonville family and take ownership of their career while using their God given talents to bring new and different ideas to the company.

Why This Is A Great Job For A Person Who Accepts Nothing Less Than Personal Greatness:

Your contribution will ensure that Johnsonville products are of the highest quality and meet our defined standards of safety. You’ll learn about a variety of meat cutting processes, expanding your existing knowledge for application into the business of making sausage. There is unlimited opportunity for growth as you become an active contributor to the Meat Cutter department and assist your team in the quest for continual improvement.

The successful candidate will ensure compliance with safety, quality, and sanitation requirement. In addition, this candidate will establish and sustain effective relationships with all Members so that they may work together to promote innovation and cooperation in order to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Know and follow all safety policies involved in the position. This may include being trained as an authorized Member of the Lock Out Tag Out, or forklift program(s).
• Follow all GMP, SOP, and safe food handling practices.
• Operation of equipment to keep pace with line speed.
• Cross-train to various positions within and possibly outside of the department.
• Follow daily production schedules for products running that day.
• Complete daily paperwork as required by the equipment being operated.
• Proper set up and tear down of equipment as assigned.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred

Experience

• Food manufacturing experience is a plus

Skills

• Ability to perform responsibilities in a safe and efficient manner.
• Multitasking required.
• Communication / organization, including legible handwriting.
• Basic reading skills
• Evaluation / decision making / prioritizing.
• Requires full range of body motion: standing, squatting, kneeling, upper body twisting: occasional lifting up to 40 pounds.
• Ability to take on future learning opportunities.

Other Requirements

• TEMPERATURE - Will be exposed to wide variations in temperature, operating temperature of the finished goods department is approximately 43 degrees F.
• The ability to work with inside conditions that include exposure to moderate noise levels.

Benefits and Compensation

Applicants must be eligible to work in the country where this job is located, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 4,000+ Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

Johnsonville is an equal opportunity employer, including Vet/Disability.

We embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including protected veteran and disability status.