Cook Assistant - 1st Shift - Foster Farms

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Range of Pay:  $17.10 per hour + $0.50 shift premium

Hours: 3:00am-11:30am

Position Summary:  The primary functions of this position are to clean, set up and assemble kitchen equipment form and cook batches of filling, shred cheese, chill filling, complete appropriate documentation as needed, and ensure filling is being produced in a timely manner for production.  The cook assistant will need to be HACCP trained and document HACCP times and temperatures, as well as assist with inventories and housekeeping

Position Responsibilities

• Weigh out and manually add bags, buckets, scoops and shovels full of flavorings, spices and other ingredients to the cooker according to the recipe.
• Operate cheese grinder to grind cheese according to recipe, fill gondolas with ground cheese cover and label
• Obtain and fill containers, vats or tubs of meat, beans, cheese and other ingredients, move to cook station as needed.
• Transport full gondolas to cooler or cook station as required.
• Position full gondola of finished product to chiller station and add chilling mixture to batch. Transport finished batches to cooler storage areas as required. Complete CCP1 & CCP2 HACCP documentation.
• Obtain pallets of cheese blocks from cooler, transport to grinding station and manually cut cheese blocks into sections.
• Report to assigned workstation and obtain tools, check equipment and check recipe as required.
• Obtain work schedule, obtain paperwork and prepare for operations.
• Manually bucket product into gondolas to cooler or cook station as required.
• At end of shift, clean and secure all equipment, perform general housekeeping duties and complete all required paperwork.

• Must be able to use, or learn to use, the equipment and tools used to perform the job.
• Must be able to perform all job functions safely.
• Must meet the company standards for the job.
• Must be able to follow instructions.
• Must be able to understand and follow all written SSOP’s
• Must be able to understand MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets)
• Must be able to work the scheduled /assigned times and required overtime for the position
• Must be able to stand and walk for extended period of time.
• Must be able to lift 50 llbs

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.