1st Shift General Labor Worker/Trabajador de Producción 1-Turno

Job Description

Job Description

Are you a hard worker looking for a steady job with opportunities to earn additional money through overtime hours? Do you have experience working in the meat processing industry, or are eager to start? Do you enjoy working with your hands? Villari Food Group is seeking hard-working, disciplined individuals to join our team. If you’re interested in working for a family-owned business where your contributions are valued, apply today!

The primary job duties of our General Laborers include packaging the meat, labeling items, palletizing shipments, and retrieving frozen products. We’ll provide the training, you show up ready to work! If you’re interested, please apply today! Jobs start immediately. 

Job duties:

• Complete physical labor as needed in a cold (32℉), wet manufacturing environment
• Follow all appropriate Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
• Complete all assigned tasks and shifts as assigned according to production requirements, including but not limited to moving fresh pork through the production floor
• Follow all safety guidelines and wear all required safety gear ensuring a safe work environment for you and your co-workers.
• Continuous training in Safe Quality Food (SQF) and all additional training as required.
• Fulfill other duties and assignments as assigned by managers.

To qualify for this job you must have:

• Flexibility with work hours, in general
• Have strong attention to detail
• Understand and follow verbal and written instruction in Spanish or in English
• Punctual with great attendance 
• Ability to satisfy physical requirements (see below)

What Villari Food Group offers you:

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity to earn overtime hours
• Medical Insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K
• Paid vacation days and holidays
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products
• Opportunities for employee recognition
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!
• Employment with a great team and an experienced supervisor

How Villari Foods is different:

• As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
• We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.
• The experience each employee has working at Villari is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉  (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals. Villari Foods will provide cold-weather gear to you.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud. Ear protection is required and provided.

• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity
• Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery
• Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Foods is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.