Overview

NOTE: Due to limited bunkhouse availability, this position is for LOCALS ONLY who live in Sitka, Alaska.

Seafood processorsperform a variety of manual labor tasks. Once the fishing fleet delivers seafood to our docks, our processing employees move the product through our production line until it is shipped in bulk to customers and cold storage facilities worldwide.

Adventure ahead! Salmon season is an incredible time to experience the beautiful landscape of remote, coastal Alaska, home to some of the world's largest and most sustainable wild salmon fisheries. This is a chance to work hard, save on expenses, meet a variety of people from around the world, and produce healthy protein for worldwide consumption.The work lasts from approximately mid-June to late September. The season may be shorter or longer depending on the fishery. Employees may elect to continue working for Sitka Sound for the fall fisheries.

Responsibilities

Job duties may include, but are not limited to, offloading product from vessels; sorting, butchering, cleaning, weighing, cutting, filleting, trimming, inspecting, and boxing various seafood products; operating plant machinery, a forklift or pallet jack; inspecting product; loading product, boxes, pallets, or carts of product into or out of freezers or refrigerated vans; preparing packaging materials; guiding product into automated machinery: and cleaning or sanitizing the work area.

To preserve our food products at the peak of freshness, our plants operate 24-hours a day.Employees are assigned to 16-hour shifts, seven days a week. You may be assigned to day or night shifts. There may be several days or weeks of full production, and there may be several days with little or no production. Wild fisheries are not always easy to predict.

In Alaska, employees are paid overtime after eight regular hours in a day, and after 40 regular hours in a week. With minimal onsite expenses, and hopefully a large fish run, this is often a great way to make money in a relatively short period of time.NPSI recognizes several holidays during the year. Hourly employees are paid at their overtime rate for all hours worked on the holiday. In the summer, July 4^th^is a recognized holiday.

No Tolerances North Pacific Seafoods prohibits the use, sale, or possession of ANY drug not medically authorized.We do not allow the use or possession of marijuana, medical or otherwise, at our plants. Employees may be asked to submit to random, post-accident, or for cause testing at any time, and NPSI reserves the right to search all areas of the plant without advance notice in order to maintain the no tolerance policy.

Important Considerations

This work can be hard, monotonous, and boring.There is no way to predict how much work will be available since this is a wild fishery.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is NPSI's policy to comply with federal, state, and local law prohibiting unlawful discrimination. NPSI does not and will not permit discrimination (including harassment) in recruitment, hiring, or other employment actions and decisions based on an employee or applicant being a member of a protected class, which includes, but is not limited to, race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history), or other statuses protected by state and local law. It is NPSI's policy to provide legal and fair treatment to all employees regarding recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, wages, hours, benefits, working conditions, training, and availability of advancement opportunities.