Chicken Delivery Helper - 1st Shift

About the role

Be part of a critical team that keeps our hatchery operations running smoothly! As a Chicken Delivery Helper, you’ll play a key role in ensuring chicks reach their destination safely and efficiently. You’ll support the delivery driver in loading, transporting, and unloading chicks with care, helping maintain top-notch animal welfare while keeping operations on track. Every day offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on our poultry program and the start of a healthy flock.

Responsibilities

• Assist the driver in the loading of chicks onto the Smithway chick transport vehicle.
• Assist with the off-loading of fully loaded pallets from the Smithway, and the reloading of emptied pallets.
• Remove stacked chick boxes from pallets approximately 7 feet high and gently empty the chicks onto the ground.
• Restack empty chick boxes onto pallets and prepare them for return to the hatchery.
• Adhere to all biosecurity and safety requirements.
• Remove bio-security garments and dispose of all refuse at the farm.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Hatchery management.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Reading and writing skills are preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Work environment includes moving in an upright position and working on dry, concrete, sawdust, and plastic grating surfaces with up to 4 hours in a single interval.
• Must be able to lift, control, and carry up to 50 lbs. at distances of up to 200 feet.
• Exposure to temperature ranges from 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity.
• Exposure to airborne chick down, vaccine, disinfectants, and other chemicals used in hatchery & breeder management.
• Bending, twisting, lifting, reaching, sitting, and grasping varies in repetitions, distances, degrees, angles, weights, height, intervals of time, objects grasped, and body positions depending upon the task being performed.
• Normal exposure to chemicals listed in plant MSDS.

This position is a piece rate position and is paid $0.0234 per mile completed and $0.0982 per box completed with average earnings ranging from $15.45 per hour; guaranteed minimum wage laws apply. Annual bonus (variable depending on performance) as well as overtime may be available.

Schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 4:00 am–Until Processing Complete. Weekends/Saturdays as business needs dictate.