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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

32

Job Duties:

Prime Line, Inc. is a vertically integrated catfish farm with on-site processing facilities. Primary duties are drain and prepare ponds for brood fish, catfish fry, fingerlings, stockers, and food fish. Seine ponds to move fish to appropriate ponds. Pond repair and maintenance. Receive ingredients for feed, mix and prepare feed for fish. Secondary duties include clean, fillet and pack fish in processing plant. Place spawning cans in ponds, inspect for fish eggs, collect eggs, and transport eggs to hatchery, place eggs in hatching baskets, place baskets in hatching troughs. Inspect eggs regularly, treat eggs as required, collect fry from egg troughs and move to rearing troughs, monitor fry health. In hatchery, clean and disinfect egg troughs, rearing troughs and baskets. Remove spawning cans from ponds. Place pumps and screens to filter and fill fry ponds. Collect swim up fry and transport and unload into fry ponds. Feed fry, monitor and maintain water quality and fry health, protect fry from predatory birds. Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload fingerlings into ponds, feed fingerlings, monitor and maintain water quality and fingerling health, protect fingerlings from predatory birds. Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload stockers into ponds, feed stockers, monitor and maintain water quality and stocker health, protect stockers from predatory birds. Seine, load, transport, and unload food fish for further processing. Requires workers to operate and maintain trucks, pickups, boom trucks, fish feeders, tractors. Use oxygen meters, aerators, aerator control panels, cell phones, oxygen buoys, seine reels, seines, live cars, boats with outboard motors, pumps.

Job Classification:

45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Must be available for entire contract period and able to perform all job duties 4b. Able to operate tractors and other farm equipment. 4e. Some heavy lifting (60-80 lbs.) spawning containers and feed, boxed product in processing plant. 4f. Work is performed outdoors and involves exposure to sun, rain, heat, cold, insects and other natural elements. 4g-4j. Seining requires use of arms, legs and moving whole body walking in water 4-4 1/2 feet deep, lifting, balancing, and stooping. Duties in processing plant are repetitive and workers stand 100% of time. Hours of work may vary due to weather conditions and job duties. Ability to swim. Be available at time and place necessary to begin employment. Applicants must possess documents required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States to complete Form I-9 form upon hire. Drug testing is conducted at Prime Line's expense if at any time employer feels it is necessary to ensure safety in the workplace.

Number of Hours Per Week:

50

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

5:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Prime Line Inc

Location:

Scooba, MS 39358

Worksite

Address:

1762 Stan Tabor Road, Macon , MS 39341

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24345-530166

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Overtime will be paid for over 40 hours worked only for the week fish from other farms are processed. $21.80 per hour overtime pay

Date Posted:

12/16/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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