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Description

Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with global operations in 6 countries and serves customers in almost 60 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA), Trident employs approximately 7,700 people worldwide each year and partners with over 2,700 independent fishermen and crewmembers in Alaska. Trident catches and processes virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also encompasses cultured and wild species sourced from an international network of trusted suppliers.

Summary: Dock leads Assist the Dock Foreperson in coordination of deliveries and relevant operations, and monitoring activities of workers engaged in dock work activities by performing the following duties

Note: Dock Lead I residing in Trident housing will be subject to a co-pay of fifteen dollars per day for room and board, for each day that at least 8 hours of work is offered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads in one or more sections of dock area pertaining to training, quality, workmanship, productivity, recovery, sanitation, and employee practices.
• Ensures proper use of protective gear, safe operation of machinery, and safe use of chemical cleaning agents.
• Reports continuing performance and attendance issues to supervisor.
• Receives and answers questions from workers pertaining to dock area processes or equipment operation.
• Monitors and expedites flow of materials within the dock area and makes adjustments when necessary.
• Notifies foreperson of equipment malfunctions.
• Tends or operates machines or equipment in the dock area to substitute for absentee workers.
• Maintains workflow records and documents as necessary.
• Assures compliance with all safety and dock work practices.
• Trains workers in equipment operation and in safety procedures.
• Communicates with Supervisors, and other Lead personnel any problems or concerns.
• Performs activities of workers supervised.
• Dock Leads may be assigned duties and tasks same as dock workers and keys as needed.
• Operates Crane, forklift, and other equipment with appropriate operators' licenses.
• Identify all incoming fish and properly segregate according to species, grade, size, color.
• Coordinate segregation by species to facility fish bins/RSW

Additional Responsibilities:

• Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.
• Actively participates in safety policies, activities and implementations.
• Assist Quality Control Tech if necessary
• Oversees and directs dock workers and keys as assigned.
• Assists Dock foreperson with all relevant dock operations.
• Assists with training of dock workers and keys.

Employees working in Alaska are advised to have medical insurance coverage which is valid in the State of Alaska.

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. More information can be found at https://www.tridentseafoods.com/benefits.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

* Must be a current Trident Seafoods employee or have worked for Trident Seafoods before* Has worked in a Key position at a Trident location in the past year

Preferred Qualifications:

* Forklift, crane, and other applicable operators' licenses

Special Training/Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance. To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of email, spreadsheet software, word processing software and presentation software.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects

• regularly up to 10 pounds
• frequently up to 25 pounds
• occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. May be required to distinguish shades of color to identify abnormalities and/or defects in food products.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Work authorizations:

* This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

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Trident Seafoods provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Trident Seafoods and its subsidiaries have adopted a drug-free workplace policy. Working under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol is not permitted.

Employment with Trident Seafoods is contingent upon the candidate maintaining valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment, with or without immigration sponsorship by the company.