Seafood Processing Worker

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 pe