Find your future at National Beef!

National Beef of Dodge City, Kansas, is looking for a qualified professional to join our team as a Edible Rendering Cooker Operator.  With competitive pay and benefits, safe and stable work, and an environment that is caring and supportive, National Beef could become your next career move!

Competitive Wages and Benefits:

• Family-friendly benefits including Health, Dental and Vision
• Paid vacation
• Paid holidays
• Employee meat purchase program

Edible Rendering Cooker Operator responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Monitor operating temperatures and adjust feed or discharge speeds required to maintain discharge temperatures within the upper and lower limits
• Report any operational temperature deviations immediately to supervisor
• Monitor cooking levels
• Monitor and report changes in raw bin levels
• Monitor application or defoamer, reporting any deviations to supervisor
• Perform product quality testing
• Clean cooker in-feed magnets at the beginning of each shift
• Check press magnets 2 times per shift
• Report any finds regarding the magnets to supervisor 
• Acid application and monitoring
• Switching out chemical barrels
• Maintain log of barrel switch and lot numbers of barrels
• Preform dry pick up and wash down of all edible rendering areas
• Other duties as assigned

This is a safety sensitive position.  This is an on-site position.

Qualified candidates for the Edible Rendering Cooker Operator should possess the following:

• Excellent safety and attendance record with previous employer
• Ability to read, write and speak English preferred but not required
• Ability to lift above the shoulder a minimum of 50 lbs
• Physical stamina to work while standing, walking or stooping for long periods of time
• Ability to perform all required tasks in a safe, efficient manner with minimal supervisor

Qualified candidates for this position will be required to successfully complete the background check.

Must be at least 18 years of age or older.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

National Beef is a leader in producing fresh, chilled and further processed beef products for customers in the U.S. and worldwide. We offer a variety of employment opportunities in our production, packaging, and hide tanning facilities that stretch from the western plains to the east coast. We strive to be the preferred employer in every one of those communities, whether it’s measured by the number of people employed or the good we do in the area. We invite you to join our family, wherever you call home.

National Beef is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, natural origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, or status as a disabled individual.

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