Poultry hanger with experience (Belgium) Dendermonde, in Belgium

Job description

Our partner Plukon is a known poultry group, supplying chicken products and ready meals to leading European food partners, working with poultry farms and factories in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company is currently looking for workers to join its team in Dendermode. 

Are you motivated for long-term employment abroad, as a meat production worker? The company is currently looking for chicken factory workers for their production hanging department. 

You will be requested to:

• Suspend slaughtered poultry chickens (still feathered) with legs on hooks, from the conveyor, in a very fast working tempo, around 16-20 chicken per minute;
• Carry out work on and around the production line by the instructions applicable to the workplace;
• Clean working area or other required tasks, if necessary.

The employees will be daily provided with new working clothes, gloves, face masks, etc. as well as safety shoes at the work location.

The working temperature may vary depending on the department to perform the tasks. The location can become dirty during the hanging process. Some unpleasant smell is also a condition to be flexible with.

Overtime might be requested to guarantee production. Shifts schedule will be informed weekly by the company. Salary is around €980-1020 net monthly.

Requirements:

• Experience required in meat production: the worker must be skillful and result-oriented;
• Ready to work in a slaughterhouse;
• Attention to hygiene, safety, and quality standards;
• Minimum height 1,70m (to reach the special hangers); 
• Team spirit and motivation to work in a smelly and sometimes noisy environment, standing during the entire journey;
• Fast-pace personality;
• Strong and healthy candidate, capable of facing dirty areas, machine noise, and physically demanding tasks;
• As tasks are related to the meat processing industry and the processing of poultry, workers cannot have infectious or skin diseases;
• Availability to stay in Belguim for the long term.

Language Comments:

Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Hungarian speakers with no English are welcome. Basic English communication abilities are strongly advised.