TECHNICIAN ASST CASE

Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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Summary:

Assists the QC department or one or more of the following technicians: Surimi technicians, fillet technicians, roe technician, fish meal or fish oil technicians as well as processes seafood product on board a factory trawler, processing vessel, or catcher processor by performing the following duties.

Essential functions (responsibilities, tasks, supervisory needs):

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Cleans, scraps, trims, and fillets product.
• Opens and removes raw materials and places on belts.
• Segregates product on conveyor belt or table according to grade, color, and size, and places product in containers or on designated conveyors.
• Separates and Discards cull (inferior or defective) items and foreign matters.
• Weighs, labels and packs product in boxes, barrels, baskets, or crates for storage or shipment.
• Operates machine(s) to move live or packed seafood from place to place.
• Hand butchers whole fish or fillets, bleeds and cuts fish using a knife.
• Clears physical blockages of jammed processing machines.
• Places and pulls freezer pans or trays holding frozen product into freezers by hand or with the use of a work aid.
• Moves the various packed and frozen product stacked in the freezer by conveyor or by hand onto pallets or nets for offloading.
• Assists the QC department or of any the technicians with any tasks assigned.
• Reviews workspace for cleanliness and safety.
• Understands and adheres to all GMP & safety procedures associated with the specific processing jobs assigned.
• Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.
• Assist in all loading and unloading operations at the start and end of all trips.

Required Qualifications (education, years of experience, KSAs):

• Six months experience with technical knowledge of seafood processing

Preferred education and experience:

• One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Work environment (includes travel/on-call):

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must be able to climb or descend one or more set of steep stairs or vertical ladders both inside and outside in all weather conditions. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision and depth perception. May be required to distinguish shades of color to identify abnormalities and/or defects in food products.

Must be capable of boarding and departing (exiting) a vessel without assistance by moving up or climbing a gangplank, the stern ramp of a vessel and/or a vertical ladder. Must be capable of boarding/departing the vessel by being lifted in a crane or man-lift. May also enter and exit a skiff from a dock, plane, or a boat unassisted. Must meet at designated locations to receive instructions and place on a life jacket and an immersion suit without assistance in one minute or less. Must also move quickly without assistance to any designated lifeboat station.

Mental demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use teamwork skills. The employee will occasionally use interpersonal and customer service skills. The employee will occasionally perform basic math and read, speak, and write English. The employee will frequently need to understand spoken English.

Work authorizations:

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship