There isn’t a person in the Fletchers International Export meat processing plant production line, that can’t be removed without serious implication, from the farmers who raise the sheep to the team who load the final packaged product onto trucks to be sent to their various global destinations.

It’s a fact not lost on the family-business owners who value all of their staff’s contribution to ensure the timely execution of the functions performed like clockwork on a daily basis by over 600 staff.

Loadout employee, Zak Jump has worked at Fletchers twice before Dubbo Photo News sat down to ask recently about his newest role in load out.

“In the load out dock, we’re not working with the sheep at all, because we’re receiving the product boxed on palettes and getting them onto their respective trucks,” he said.

“It’s completely different to what I’ve done the last two times I worked here, in the harvest floor because that’s where the sheep are received and skinned, and the meat is prepared in the boning rooms, and then sent packaged to the loadout.”

Once the product is received by Zak and the team, they must ensure orders are correctly loaded safely and securely.

Zak said he enjoyed the harvest floor for the dozens of people working together in that department and the variety of jobs he could also try, saying he’d met a lot of good people there.

“I’m still meeting good people in load out, but there’s less people required in that department and I’m new and still learning new skills, and next month I’ll be learning how to drive a forklift, which Fletchers’ will help me to get that licence,” Zak said.

“There’s always opportunity to work your way up at Fletchers, by learning new skills or getting new qualifications, and the company are really open to you trying new things if you want to, so there’s the chance to earn decent money too which is good.”

Fletcher International Exports is one of Dubbo’s biggest employers processing lamb and sheep meat products, wool and sheep skins, and a diverse range of high-quality co-products.

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