Sanitation - LSI Specialty Meats

LSI, Specialty Meats, a Jack Link's owned business, is a leader in all natural air dried beef meat snacks offering a diverse portfolio of high quality products to our customers and consumers.  We are stewards of our brand, quality, value and safety are paramount in all that we do.

 At Jack Link's Protein Snacks, we see every moment of every day as an opportunity to move forward, to forge new ground. To realize our vision of becoming the World’s #1 Protein Snack Company. We never give up. You never give up. Together, we keep going. Are you wild enough to join us?

Jack Link's Protein Snacks is a global leader in snacking and the No. 1 meat snack manufacturer worldwide. Family-owned and operated with headquarters in Minong, Wisconsin, Jack Link’s Protein Snacks also has a large corporate hub in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is made up of over 4,000 passionate team members, across 11 countries, who share an uncompromising commitment to delivering awesome products and feeding the journey of those who move things forward. The Jack Link’s Protein Snacks portfolio of brands includes, Jack Link’s, Lorissa’s Kitchen, BiFi, Peperami, Wild River, Golden Island and Country Fresh

Daily Duty’s (but not limited to)

• Dishes- wash, sanitized, put away after dry
• Wipe down or wash carts, pallets as needed (at least once a week)
• Wash all sinks (hand, mop, dish) once a week
• Cleaning of machines. You will be trained on how. Machines should not be left wet – they will rust or breed bacteria.

1. Tumbler
2. Grinder
3. Risco stuffer
4. Biltong Cutter
5. Packaging machine
6. Reiser stuffer

• All Floors

1. Production Room floor maintain throughout the day sweep/mop
2. Hanging Room area.  Areas that do not have meat hanging in them.
3. Cutting room (end of the day) sweep/mop
4. Dish room (end of the day) sweep/mop
5. Loading dock sweep when needed (at least once a week.)
6. Shipping dock sweep when needed (at least once a week.)

• Trash: all trash gathered at end of the day an put in dumpster.  Any cardboard broken down and place in bin.

• Slicing area

1. Slicers cleaned
2. Floors
3. Tables
4. Trash

• Front area of building

1. Bathrooms wiped down and restocked at least once a week, trash as well.
2. Floor swept,( mopped at least once a week.)
3. Front door cleaned inside an out as needed.
4. White painted doors wiped, around doorknobs and doorknobs as well.
5. Break room, wiped down, trash, floors.
6. When rags and coats are dropped off folded and put away in proper places.
7. Restock gloves, hair net, beard nets when needed.

Once a month deep cleaning – to be announced

Required Education: High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Preferred Experience: No experience required

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE and ABILITIES:

• Able to organize and prioritize in a multi-tasking environment.
• Able to understand and follow Chemical & Lock-Out Tag-Out procedures and policies, once trained.
• Build and support a culture of openness and accountability within (and out-side) the assigned department.
• Demonstrate professionalism; encourage and insist on positive attitudes and behaviors from team members.
• Encourage team member initiative and innovation, and show recognition for effort and achievement.
• Communicate with peers, subordinates, and leaders in an effective, timely manner.
• Suggest improvements; continuously improve the quality of all support activities.
• Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related-problems.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers.
• Ability to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions and deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; must work effectively with all levels of management and team member.
• Must demonstrate effective leadership, problem solving, and team member motivational skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 40 pounds, and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Jack Link's is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

E-Verify
Jack Link's provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that Jack Link’s has violated our responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515).