Rendering

Indiana Packers Corporation•Delphi, IN

2d•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 role involves inspecting and assembling equipment, checking its operation, and managing the movement and processing of materials through the rendering system. The position is based at the company’s Delphi, Indiana facility and is needed from August 2025 through February 2026. Third-shift hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.; workdays are generally Monday through Friday, with Saturdays or other weekend work as needed. Shifts are 8–10 hours, and on-the-job training is provided. The stated wage is $21.96 per hour. The work takes place in a manufacturing environment and may involve extreme temperatures, wet, humid, odorous, dusty, and outdoor conditions; fumes or airborne particles; vibration; and moving machinery. The noise level can be loud, and hearing protection is required. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment. The job requires strenuous physical labor, including prolonged standing and walking, repetitive hand and arm movements, coordinated use of limbs, and lifting objects up to 50 pounds. Indiana Packers Corporation is a fully integrated producer of fresh and processed meats for retail, food service, and private-label markets. It is majority-owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and reports almost 3,000 team members and four primary processing facilities. The company describes its values as diversity, innovation, collaboration, and passion for the work.

Requirements

Be at least 18 years of age.
Be able to work from August 2025 through February 2026.
Be comfortable working with raw meat or carcass parts.
Be able to operate or work near mechanical production equipment and/or cutting tools.
Be capable of repetitive grasping and pinching, flexing and extending the arms, bending, twisting, and exerting a force of at least 35 pounds while standing on concrete floors and/or platforms for extended periods.
Be willing to work in hot environments above 100 degrees, as well as wet, humid, and odorous environments.
Be able to read, write, and understand instructions in English effectively.
Be able to work while wearing all necessary personal protective equipment.
Be able to lift objects up to 50 pounds and walk and stand for long periods.
Have good manual dexterity and multi-limb coordination, the ability to quickly move arms and legs, and excellent stamina and vision.
Work the stated third-shift schedule, with Saturdays and other weekend work as needed.

Nice To Haves

On-the-job training is provided; no preferred qualifications are specified.

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 verify proper functioning.
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 or cooking tanks for inedible processing.
Label storage containers “Not for Consumption.”
Contact maintenance mechanics to troubleshoot equipment malfunctions.