Cook Assistant - 2nd Shift

The value you’ll bring:

As a Machine Operator team member at Smithfield Foods, you’ll play a key role in delivering safe, high-quality food by performing essential production tasks and supporting your coworkers. Your reliability, attention to detail, and strong work ethic will help us meet our standards for safety, quality, and teamwork every day.

• Contribute to a positive work environment
• Help maintain a safe and efficient production line
• Ensure our products reach families across America

What You’ll Do

Machine Operators will work with meat cutting/packaging machines and other equipment to process meat products for the consumer. These positions require technical knowledge of computerized equipment.

• Work with meat cutting/packaging machines and other equipment
• Process meat products for the consumer
• Perform essential production tasks
• Support coworkers

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Continuous/repetitive movement, including grasping, pinching hands, flexing, and extending arms
• Stand on concrete and/or platforms for up to a 12-hour shift
• Work around animal blood and/or carcass parts
• Work with a knife (if trained)
• Work in cold areas (approximately 20-40 degrees)
• Work in warm areas (over 100 degrees)
• Work in a noisy environment using personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Work with sanitation/cleaning chemicals
• Work around strong smells/odors
• Climb/move on ladders, steps, stairways, walkways and platforms
• Bend, stoop, and twist repetitively over the course of an entire shift
• Walk long distances
• May require certification in order to operate various pieces of equipment required for the position

Additional Essential Functions

• May require repetitive overhead lifting up to 30 lbs, single lifting of heavy objects which can weigh up to 60 lbs, or lifting of objects using mechanical assistance.

Qualifications

• At least 18 years of age
• Willing and able to understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Willing and able to perform a task requiring continuous/repetitive movement, including grasping, pinching hands, flexing, and extending arms
• Willing and able to stand on concrete and/or platforms for up to a 12-hour shift
• Willing and able to work around animal blood and/or carcass parts
• Willing and able to work with a knife (if trained)
• Willing and able to work in cold areas (approximately 20-40 degrees)
• Willing and able to work in warm areas (over 100 degrees)
• Willing and able to work in a noisy environment using personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Willing and able to work with sanitation/cleaning chemicals
• Willing and able to work around strong smells/odors
• Willing and able to climb/move on ladders, steps, stairways, walkways and platforms
• Willing and able to bend, stoop, and twist repetitively over the course of an entire shift
• Willing and able to walk long distances
• May require certification in order to operate various pieces of equipment required for the position

Benefits

• Hourly Competitive Starting Pay – $22.15/hour$1.00/hour shift differential for 3rd shift
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Retail Benefits
• Great benefits packages

Pay

• $22.15/hour
• $1.00/hour shift differential for 3rd shift

Schedule

• Shifts may vary based on production demands