Rendering

Indiana Packers Corporation•Delphi, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Indiana Packers is hiring a Rendering team member to tend equipment used to render and process animal-source materials, including animal fat, bones, meat scraps, and tallow. The position is based at the company’s Delphi, Indiana facility and works second shift, from 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The role is needed for 8–10 hours per day, with Saturdays as needed, and requires availability to work from August 2025 through February 2026. The employee inspects and assembles equipment, tests it for proper operation, and monitors and adjusts the movement and processing of materials. The work involves raw meat and carcass parts, mechanical production equipment, hot, wet, humid, odorous, and sometimes cold or outdoor conditions, and strenuous physical labor. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment; hearing protection is required in the loud work environment. On-the-job training is provided.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age.
Must be able to work from August 2025 through February 2026.
Comfortable working with raw meat or carcass parts.
Able to operate or work near mechanical production equipment and/or cutting tools.
Able to perform repetitive grasping and pinching; flexing and extending arms; bending and twisting; and lifting or exerting at least 35 pounds while standing on concrete floors or platforms for extended periods.
Willing to work in hot environments exceeding 100 degrees, as well as wet, humid, and odorous environments.
Able to read, write, and understand instructions in English effectively.
Able to work while wearing all necessary personal protective equipment.
Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds, walk and stand for long periods, and perform strenuous physical labor under adverse field conditions.
Able to lift, push, pull, or carry objects and use abdominal and lower-back muscles to provide support without fatigue.
Good manual dexterity and multi-limb coordination; able to quickly move arms and legs.
Excellent stamina and vision.

Responsibilities

Inspect equipment to determine whether sanitation is adequate before beginning the rendering process.
Assemble rendering equipment, including expellers, grinders, pumps, pipes, blades, and cooking tanks.
Test equipment to ensure it is functioning properly.
Open valves and start pumps and conveyors to move materials through the rendering process.
Monitor temperature gauges, flow rates, and the condition of materials passing through cookers, expellers, and grinders; adjust valves and flow rates as needed.
Dump guts, bones, tissue, and other inedible parts into a chute leading to storage containers for cooking tanks used in inedible processing.
Label storage containers “Not for Consumption.”
Contact maintenance mechanics to troubleshoot equipment malfunctions.