Cobb - Brood Feed Conv Lead - Bear Hollow Farm

About the role

Join the Cobb Family and Grow With Us! At Cobb, we're passionate about helping our team members thrive—both professionally and personally. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you and your family in every stage of life. The best part— you're eligible for benefits on day 1 of full-time hire!

Starting Pay

Starting Pay: $21.20 per hour plus additional shift differential for evenings, nights and weekends.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Benefits Include Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Free Telehealth Services
• Free Mental Health Services
• Well-Being Support Programs
• 401K & Stock Options
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Discounts on thousands of programs and services through Beneplace
• Incentives such as Cobb Rewards, New Hire Referral and Referral Bonuses, Paid Vacations, Paid Holidays, Overtime Eligibility, and Earned Time Off

Requirements

• Must have at least 12 months of consecutive work history with one employer and no additional job gaps in employment greater than 6 months in the past 36 months.
• If applicant has been laid off or providing child or elder care, the employment gap will be increased to 18 months.
• Previous work history will not apply to applicants who have been full-time students consecutively for the last 36 months.
• Rehire criteria is a minimum waiting period of 180 days. Rehire Rule of no more than 3 times worked at Cobb/Tyson Foods.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Obtain and collect feed conversion data by performing the following duties: catch chickens from scratch area, load and haul chickens from one house to another, and place chickens into cages. Use a barcode scanner to record chicken IDs and note cage numbers. Weigh chickens and feed using a scale and record data using a computer tablet.
• Prepare, setup, and breakdown BFC chicken houses; this includes spreading shavings, scooping chicken feed into feeders, dumping spent feed, removing spent shavings from houses, and other duties.
• Sort birds in the brood house and Growout house.
• Maintain a clean and organized work environment. Practice effective communication and organizational skills.
• Lead positions must currently have and consistently maintain 4 attendance points or less.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Must use safe lifting techniques. Must regularly lift and/or move 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds, required to use wheeled dollies to lift and/or move up to 500 pounds of feed, supplies, etc.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand a majority of their shift on concrete; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and the ability to adjust focus.
• Tools and Equipment: Requires use of hand tools such as scalpels, knives, scoops, broom, squeegee; equipment such as computer tablet, barcode scanners, utility carts, scales; safe operation of vehicle to and from work area.
• Environment: Required to work on wet, slippery surfaces and in hot, dry, dusty, wet and cold environments.
• Personal Protective Equipment Required: Safety goggles and/or glasses, chemical gloves, waterproof apron, cut-resistant gloves, and rubber boots are required. Ear plugs, arm protectors, and NIOSH approved N95 particulate respirators may be worn as desired.
• Chemicals Commonly Used: disinfectants, vehicle fluids, and lubricants.
• Safety: Team member is expected to follow all applicable safety policies and procedures. These include but are not limited to Hazard Communication, Respiratory Protection, LOTO and Personal Protective Equipment. Team member is expected to identify, address and mitigate safety related risks.

Relocation Assistance Eligible

No Work Shift 1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

Unsolicited Assistance

Tyson Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited support from external recruitment vendors for open positions within the United States. Any resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee or applicant tracking system at Tyson Foods or its subsidiaries, without a valid written request and search agreement approved by HR, will be considered the property of Tyson Foods. No fees will be paid if the candidate is hired due to an unsolicited referral.