About the role

  • Manager overseeing blending, formulation, and sanitation for ready-to-eat meat products at Salm Partners. Ensuring compliance with USDA and safety regulations with a focus on performance results in Denmark, WI.

Responsibilities

  • Oversees and directs blending, formulation and seasoning activities to ensure safe and efficient preparation of raw meat/poultry blends for subsequent processing
  • Also responsible for overseeing and directing some sanitation activities in the Blending and Seasoning rooms
  • Complies with all safety, food safety, SQF, quality, GMP and USDA-FSIS requirements
  • Communicate expected performance results and ensure pertinent production information is disseminated effectively to all shift personnel in a timely manner
  • Review shift metrics with the Partners to maintain awareness of performance to standard and schedule
  • Ensure ongoing compliance with all Salm Partners and USDA sanitation and food safety requirements
  • Prepare performance evaluations and provide performance feedback through the review process

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Meat Science or related field is strongly preferred
  • Prior leadership experience and a minimum of 3 years previous work experience in a USDA-FSIS regulated meat/poultry manufacturing environment is required
  • Experience with meat blending operations or ready-to-eat processed meats manufacturing is also required
  • Meat technology knowledge and ability to trouble-shoot common blend-quality issues is strongly preferred
  • Experience in formulating sausage to defined fat & moisture levels is highly desirable
  • Experience in incorporating water/fat-binding ingredients (e.g. soy proteins, oat fiber) and inclusions (e.g. individual quick frozen vegetables, cheese) into sausage would be extremely advantageous.

Benefits

  • 401(k) with a company match
  • health, dental, and vision coverage
  • optional Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • company-paid short-term disability and life insurance policies
  • paid time off (PTO)

Job title

Blending Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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