Chicken Inspector

Our Story – John Soules Foods

John Soules Foods makes it easy to enjoy delicious food. We provide great tasting beef and chicken through retail sales, food service distributors, restaurants, and school nutrition programs. Customers love us for our simple-to-make, mouth-watering fajita products. In fact, we’re the#1 producer of beef and chicken fajitas in the U.S. But we’re so much more . Restaurant chefs and home cooks enjoy the versatility of fully cooked choices such as rotisserie chicken breast strips, grilled chicken breast strips, pulled chicken, and Certified Angus Beef® brand products.

Benefits

We offer employee and dependent medical coverage, an on-site medical clinic with zero copays, dental, vision, and prescription generic medication coverage with no copay (if filled at a preferred provider). An employer matching 401k Plan is available to all employees after meeting eligibility requirements. We provide employees with annual free health evaluation and testing, 24/7 virtual medical access, and free flu vaccines.

We also offer short term disability, voluntary life insurance, relocation benefits for selected positions, vacation days, holidays, Sam’s Club membership card, annual school visitation leave, and back to school supplies program for employees’ children.

Compensation

Employees may expect annual employee tenure bonuses, annual service wage increases for hourly production employees, job postings for advancement opportunities, periodic performance incentives, and annual performance reviews.

Recognition

We appreciate employee effort with various service award recognition programs, employee birthday gifts, personalized baby blankets for employee newborns, employee luncheons throughout the year, and an annual company picnic.

Communication

Employees throughout John Soules Foods work very hard to help achieve our success. Due to their hard work, we continue to strive and meet our employees’ needs. Ongoing feedback from our employees is critical in understanding those needs. We conduct engagement surveys, informal interviews, and the occasional employee roundtables to help us understand our employees’ needs and strengthen our employee programs.

Training and Advancement

John Soules Foods promotes and encourages training for all employees. Currently, our training programs include new employee orientation, department on-boarding, cross-training, functional training for skilled positions, and leadership training for management and future leaders. There are a variety of opportunities for career advancement for all employees at John Soules Foods.

General Position Outline

• General production labor positions requiring working on a production line performing various kinds of meat processing and packaging tasks.
• We are a non-kill facility.

• You will be expected to inspect chicken for excessive fat, blood spots, and woody breast.
  

• Continuous foreign material inspection. (Looking for anything that isn’t supposed to be on the conveyor belt.)
  

• Inspect and grade out keel meat, rib meat, and other various trim.
  

• Separate meat once it has been sliced.
  

• Align the breast meat to a laser on the conveyor.
  

• This requires standing in one place for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to work in an environment of 40+ degree temperatures, so bring your jacket and warm clothing.
• Some positions are highly repetitive.
• Must have good hand and eye coordination.
• Must be positive and have a dedicated work ethic.

Job Type: Full Time

Pay: $14.50 - $15.50 per hour

Equal Opportunity and Second Chance Employer.