Johnsonville

Our manufacturing members are the heart of our organization. Members of our manufacturing team, which includes machine operators, packaging, shipping and more, take pride in ensuring we produce only the highest-quality, most consistent products for our customers and consumers. If you’re passionate about making a difference, we want you to help make our products, processes, communities and each other better.

Johnsonville, LLC

Knife Sharpener – 2nd shift

Watertown, WI

Starting Hourly Rate: $27.86. Skill block completion will increase hourly rate.

Pay Range: $27.86 - $30.22 per hour. (plus $1.50 shift premium)

Hours: 2:00pm – 10:45pm, Monday-Friday (Overtime as production demands)

Position Overview:

This position will be the key to the success of your fellow members in the Harvest and Harvest Processing areas. Sharp knives help prevent injury and help members maintain a positive morale within their positions. You will have the opportunity to think proactively and understand how Harvest affects plant flow within this role.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with others in a professional manner to ensure your customers are getting a quality product, so they can perform their job to the best of their abilities
• Retrieve dull knives from the production floor, sharpen the dull knives and return them to the production floor
• Work within SAP to complete PMs and enter work orders
• Perform PMs on tools related to the job
• Work together with other Harvest Members to obtain World Class harvest results in safety, yields, usages, and efficiencies
• Participate in daily improvement meetings
• Set goals and objectives; both personal and as a team member to acquire "superlative" performance in order to support the Johnsonville Way
• Grow, develop, and stretch yourself by continuing to find new and better ways to meet your commitments to yourself, your team and to JVL

Education:

• High School Diploma Preferred

Experience:

• Knife Skills preferred to ensure proper sharpening techniques

Skills and Competencies:

• Bi-lingual fluency in Spanish preferred
• Excellent communication skills
• Good organizational skills
• Decision making / prioritizing
• Ability to multitask

Physical Demands:

• Requires full range of body motion: standing, squatting, kneeling, upper body twisting: occasional lifting up to 50 pounds, hand and wrist mobility.

Other Requirements:

• TEMPERATURE - Will be exposed to wide variations in temperature, operating temperature of the Boning department is approximately 40 degrees F.
• Ability to work with inside conditions that include exposure to moderate noise levels and moderate odor
• Ability to pass a pre-employment, post offer drug screen, physical and background check

Date: June 19th, 2025

Location: Watertown, WI

Member Status: Full Time, Hourly

Positions Available: 1

Benefits: Members have potential for a monthly bonus, 401k with a company match and profit sharing. Members also have access to terrific benefits including affordable medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; and fertility and adoption assistance. Johnsonville also offers competitive paid time off, including paid parental time off and tuition reimbursement!

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 3,000 Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

How to Apply:

Apply online only at: careers.johnsonville.com

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Johnsonville is an equal opportunity employer, including Vet/Disability.

We embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including protected veteran and disability status.