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Seafood Processing Worker

• Country: United States
• Visa type: H-2B
• Job ID: H-400-26184-077854 (Open on offer list)
• Employer name: Confidential
• Employees needed: 35
• E-mail (employer): Confidential
• E-mail (agent): Confidential
• Phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Agent phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Working hours per week: 40
• Wage: 17.25 USD / Hour
• OFLC Certification: ACCEPTED - PENDING RECRUITMENT
• Start date: 09/30/2026
• End date: 05/31/2027
• Process date: 07/15/2026 21:00:00
• Submit date: Confidential
• Offer description:

  Perez Gulf Seafood Processing seeks thirty-five (35) temporary full-time Seasonal Seafood Processing Workers to perform duties in its seasonal seafood processing plant located in Pierre Part, Louisiana, during the 2026–2027 oyster and shrimp processing season. Employment is temporary and will begin on October 1, 2026, and continue through June 1, 2027. Workers perform duties associated with receiving, unloading, sorting, washing, inspecting, processing, packaging, and preparing oysters and shrimp for commercial distribution. Workers receive raw oysters and shrimp delivered to the processing plant and unload shellfish from delivery trucks using manual handling methods. Workers transfer containers, sacks, or bins of oysters and shrimp to designated processing areas using carts, hand trucks, plastic bins, and pallet jacks when applicable. Workers sort oysters and shrimp by size, quality, and processing requirements, wash shellfish to remove debris, damaged product, shells, and foreign material, and prepare seafood for processing. Workers manually shuck oysters using oyster knives and other appropriate hand tools to open shells and remove oyster meat. Workers inspect oyster meat, remove shell fragments, rinse and clean oyster meat, weigh, grade, package, label, ice, refrigerate, and prepare oysters for commercial distribution. Workers also wash, sort, peel, devein, trim, clean, weigh, package, label, ice, refrigerate, and prepare shrimp for commercial distribution using shrimp peeling tools, trimming knives, and other seafood processing equipment. Additional duties include handling shellfish on processing tables, maintaining refrigerated storage areas, cleaning and sanitizing processing tables, equipment, tools, and work areas, and handling seafood in accordance with all applicable food safety, sanitation, and hygiene standards. Workers use standard seafood processing tools and equipment, including oyster knives, shucking tools, shrimp peeling and deveining tools, trimming knives, cutting boards, processing tables, weighing scales, water hoses, rinsing stations, ice bins, storage containers, packaging materials, carts, hand trucks, and pallet jacks when applicable. The position requires standing for extended periods, repetitive hand movements, frequent lifting, and working in cold, wet, and humid conditions while maintaining product quality, sanitation, and food safety standards. The employer will provide or reimburse inbound transportation and daily subsistence, when required by applicable law, from the place from which the worker comes to work for the employer to the place of employment during the first workweek. Upon completion of the work contract, or if the worker is dismissed earlier, the employer will provide or reimburse the reasonable costs of return transportation and daily subsistence to the place from which the worker originally departed to work for the employer. The employer will also provide return transportation and subsistence to workers who will not return home because they are immediately employed by another H-2B employer, where required by applicable law. The employer will not provide return transportation or subsistence to workers who voluntarily abandon employment or are terminated for cause consistent with applicable law.

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