Warehouse - Freezer

Job Description

Job Description

Description

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary:

A Freezer Worker at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Warehouse team supporting efforts to maintain efficient operations and regulatory compliance. This position involves maintaining product quality by inspecting products, properly tagging and rotating pallets, and adhering to HACCP plans and is ideal for someone who is organized, safety conscious, and proactive. 

1. Freezer Operations: 
   • Able to review receiving documentation to ensure accuracy.
   • Maintain the freezer configuration according to the approved layout for product, packaging, and equipment storage.
   • Properly load a pallet to make sure loads are stable and secure.
   • Properly operate forklift, pallet jack, and other necessary powered equipment.
   • Understand how to read and utilize pick tickets to pick, pack, and load orders.
   • Verify that all return labels have been approved/checked prior to placing product back in inventory.
   • Ensure product is fully received, rotation is complete, and product is staged in the correct quantities. 
2. Safety and Compliance: 
   • Attend and participate in department meetings that cover safety, quality, and productivity issues.
   • Clean up spills immediately or flag the area off, avoid blocking emergency exits, and report any potential hazards to a supervisor.
   • Follow all established safety rules and obey safety signs and tags.
   • Ensure product is inspected for quality, product/pallets properly tagged and rotated.
   • Understand and perform all the appropriate HACCP plans assigned.
   • Promptly report all needed repairs and ensure preventive maintenance is performed on your equipment. 

Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.

Education and Experience

• Required
  • High school diploma or GED. 
  • One year’s experience in a warehouse in a freezer environment. 
• Preferred
  • Forklift and pallet jack experience.
  • Forklift certification.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:

• Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally. 
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.  
• Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. 

Working Conditions

The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:

• Office, as well as warehouse environment.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.
• Plant exposure to wet, cold, and/or humid temperatures.
• Standard office equipment and heavy machinery.

Total compensation:

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:

• Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short-term disability.
• Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses
• 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match
• Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include sick days, holiday pay, vacation, and personal time
• Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members
• Product purchase program

Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.