When thinking about employment at Nicholas Meat, most people likely don’t realize the diverse roles available at the facility. Now employing more than 450 people, Nicholas Meat is a top employer in Clinton County.

“Most people think that a beef harvest and fabrication facility like Nicholas Meat only employs meat cutters or butchers,” Doug Nicholas, Nicholas Meat vice president and COO. “Yes, we employ these positions, and they are the backbone of our organization. But we have a variety of other departments and employees that enable the operation to run smoothly throughout the day.”

In addition to production roles, Nicholas Meat has a diverse range of support departments including maintenance, food safety, quality assurance, transportation, sanitation, office personnel and more. These departments all work together with the goal of putting out a quality product in the safest and most humane manner possible.

“Of those support departments, maintenance is integral to the operation of Nicholas Meat,” he continued. “We have a significant amount of industrial equipment that needs to be maintained – whether it’s fixing something that may have broken down to scheduled maintenance that helps things run smoothly.”

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Overseeing everything from live animal handling to customer correspondence are members of the food safety and quality assurance team. These individuals work to ensure our overall process adheres to our policies and procedures. Of course, there’s office personnel who handle accounting as well as human resources and safety. And a transportation and logistics department that arranges the delivery of cattle as well as delivery of customers’ products.

“Of course, we can’t forget about sanitation, either,” Nicholas continued. “We only run one production shift a day, but then we have maintenance come in to take care of preventative maintenance that can’t be done during operations. Once maintenance is completed, our sanitation crew cleans and sanitizes the entire facility in preparation for the next day’s production.”

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