Rendering

Indiana Packers Corporation • Delphi, IN

353d • $20 - $21

About The Position

A Rendering team member is responsible for tending equipment used to render and process animal source material including animal fat, bones, meat scrapes and rendering tallow from fat. This factory position is needed for 8 - 10 hours a day, including Saturdays as needed. First shift hours are from 6:00am - 2:30pm, second shift from 2:00pm - 10:30pm and third from 10:00pm-6:30am.

Requirements

• At least 18 years of age.
• Comfortable working with raw meat/or carcass parts.
• Able to operate or work near mechanical production equipment and/or cutting tools.
• Capable of performing the physical requirements of the position, including repetitive movement of grasping and pinching hands, flexing, and extending arms, bending, twisting, and lifting or exerting a force of at least 35 lbs. while standing on concrete floors and/or platforms for extended periods of time.
• Willing to work in hot environments (100+ degrees).
• Must be able to work in wet, humid, and odorous environments.
• Must be able to read, write and understand instructions in English effectively.
• Work while wearing all necessary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Responsibilities

• Completes inspection of equipment to determine if sanitation is adequate to begin rendering process.
• Assembles rendering equipment including expellers, grinders, pumps, pipes, blades, cooking tanks.
• Tests equipment to determine proper functioning.
• Opens valves and starts pumps and conveyors to move materials through rendering process.
• Monitors temperature gauges and rate of flow and condition of materials passing through cookers, expellers, and grinders; adjust valves and rate of flow.
• Dumps guts, bones, tissue, and other inedible parts into a chute leading to storage containers for cooking tanks for inedible processing.
• Labels storage containers as 'Not for Consumption'.
• Contacts maintenance mechanics for troubleshooting equipment malfunction.

Benefits

• Three health care options (including an HSA).
• Two dental options.
• Two vision options.
• A very competitive 401(k) plan (with company match).
• Several other supplemental benefits (including a generous tuition reimbursement program).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Food Manufacturing
• Education Level: No Education Listed