Job Description

Cedar Bay Grilling Company

Blandford NS CA

Cedar Bay Grilling Company bringing the best of Atlantic Canada to homes around the world! A locally operated company producing a wide range of frozen seafood products, primarily cedar planked salmon; available in Retail and Food Service channels. We are seeking Fish Processing Plant workers to work at Blandford, NS.

Position Details:

Position: Fish-Processing Plant Labourer 

Location: 60 Gates Fish Plant Road, Blandford NS B0J 1C0

Terms of employment: Full-time (shift by early morning), term/contract/permanent

Wage: $18 - $20 per hour based on experience

Benefits package offered:

• Extended healthcare benefit package options
• Vacation pay and overtime pay
• Relocation/accommodation assistance

Job duties ?

• Feeding and unloading processing machines
• Loading and unloading items from machines, carts and dollies;
• Transporting raw materials, finished products and packaging materials
• Moving pallets of fish and planks to wet room using pallet jacks
• Moving soaked planks to packaging room using pallet jacks
• Opening cases of fish and placing the fish in tubs to thaw;
• Placing planks in tubs to be soaked
• Moving thawed fish to cutting room using pallet jacks
• Moving soaked planks to packaging room using pallet jacks
• Feeding flattened boxes into forming machines to construct containers
• Removing filled containers from conveyors
• Manually packing goods into bags and boxes or other containers
• Loading fish into cutting machines
• Transporting bins of fish from cutter to packing line
• Checking products and packaging for basic quality defects
• Assisting process control and machine operators in performing their duties
• Measuring and dumping ingredients into hoppers of mixing and grinding machines
• Placing fish and cedar planks on packing line
• Placing and /or adjusting labels on individual packages
• Placing packages in boxes
• Placing boxes onto pallets
• Moving pallets to storage door using pallet jacks
• Quality control assurance-inspecting product to ensure high quality
• Recording production data
• Other duties as assigned by management

Skills requirements:

No education required. Minimum 1 year experience at a food processing plant environment is required. Be able to communicate in English is must.

Please send your resume to hr@cedarbaygrilling.com and reference 2024-6B on the subject line. We encourage individuals from underrepresented groups Indigenous people, Youth, Visible Minorities, Persons with disabilities, newcomers, and asylum seekers with valid work permits to apply.