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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

11

Job Duties:

Butcher Meat Processor: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by the supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Work is performed on the farm, butchering/slaughtering of a live animal. Workers are responsible for live kills, including shooting/stunning, cutting, removing the animal’s head, hide, and legs. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to cutting and skinning the animal and presenting it for further processing in a clean manner. Must be able to process and prepare a variety of meats from all hoofed animals with knowledge of the carcass and how to properly break it down. Must have knowledge and skills to sharpen butcher knives. Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts, sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering, Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass. Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning. Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals. Must maintain all equipment, including knives, saws, grinders, and work area. The employer will furnish, without cost, all tools, supplies, or equipment required in the performance of work. Must be able to lift a minimum of 75 lbs. Knowledge of animal safe handling, including humane slaughtering procedures. Knowledge of basic animal safety rules and how to handle oneself among live animals; experience preferred. Knowledge of farm life, including farm animals and machinery performed on the farm. Work requires repetitive movements, and most of the time is spent on one’s feet. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by the supervisor. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Employees are required to perform any of the following tasks to attend to livestock: order feed, retrieve feed from storage, prepare feed and mix in additives, deliver feed to livestock facilities, give feed to livestock, check feed equipment, clean and maintain feed equipment, place mineral blocks, inspect water sources and watering equipment, break, melt, remove ice from water, clean, maintain, repair water systems, transport water to livestock when necessary, inspect livestock for illnesses and injuries, identify and quarantine any sick livestock from the herd, monitor livestock temperatures, brand livestock, castrate livestock, weigh livestock, spray livestock with insecticide, remove and dispose of any dead livestock. Receive new livestock, vaccinate/treat new livestock, brand new livestock, clean the receiving area, maintain livestock equipment. transport cattle to pastures, repair fencing for livestock, and prepare livestock for market or slaughter. The employer will furnish, without cost, all tools, supplies, or equipment required in the performance of work. Work requires repetitive movements, and the majority of time is spent on ones feet. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodation. Work is performed primarily outdoors and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, snow, cold and other natural elements. Forage: Duties to include, but not limited to: Soil preparation, operating tillage equipment, cutting equipment. Hauling bales to storage barns / farms that purchase hay.

Job Classification:

51-3023.00 - Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Kuegel Tax & Accounting Inc

Location:

Owensboro, KY 42301

Worksite

Address:

1939 State Route 1554, Owensboro, KY 42301

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25035-666003

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/18/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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