Hatchery Laborer - DP0354 - Cedar Hatchery (Shift Varies)

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our values Team Members will shine through in everything we do. We offer the experience of a large organization; however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage Team Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Pay

$17.70 per hour (Additional $1.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:00pm and 11:59pm. Additional $2.00 per hour for hours worked between 12:00am-4:59am)

Responsibilities

• Receive, prepare, and sort eggs for the purpose of setting a higher quality egg pack to the incubators.
• Prepare supplies and load backhauls ensuring clean supplies and maximizing backhaul ratio.
• Maintain accurate inventories ensuring oldest eggs set first.
• Operate the Automatic Rack Transfer machine in a safe manner while maximizing efficiencies.
• Clean and disinfect buildings and equipment so that each will pass quality control bacterial level standards.
• Transfer eggs from incubators through In-Ovo injection equipment to hatchers while minimizing breakage and temperature shock to developing embryos.
• Prepare egg sets using Automatic Rack Transfer machine and SST pallets or from other types of supplies, by hand or with vacuum operated egg shifter.
• Prepare egg supplies—build clean SST pallets of flats to backhaul height. Load onto trucks with pallet jack.
• Receive eggs from Colorado, Arkansas, and outside purchase. Unload and ready these eggs for traying.
• Unload eggs using a mechanical or power jack.
• Use high pressure hose to clean and disinfect buildings and equipment (i.e., hatcher rooms, hatcher trays, hatcher racks, egg flats, hatching machines, set hall, and tray washroom).
• Pull hatcher racks, load chicks onto the separator, and palletize serviced chicks.
• Rack pulling. Transport hatcher racks full of chicks to the service area.
• Ensure proper operation of spray vaccination machine.
• Grade chicks for quality.
• Transfer scheduled eggs from incubators through the In-Ovo injection equipment to the proper hatcher.
• Using power/garden hose and equipment-cleaning cart sanitize equipment and rooms after transfer.
• Remove broken and/or highly contaminated eggs from hatcher trays.

Requirements

• Ability to repeatedly lift 60 lbs. to a height of 80”.
• Ability to move 1,500 lb. Rack (on wheels) through rooms.
• Ability to meet company pallet jack and/or forklift licensing requirements.
• Ability to disinfect equipment and rooms safely and effectively.
• Must adhere to disease control program.
• Ability to bend, stoop, and reach above head.
• Ability to operate disinfectant equipment as well as tray washer.
• Ability to work in a wet environment with temperature ranges.
• Basic math skills.
• Ability to work in dusty (chick down) environment.
• Ability to meet company productivity and quality standards.
• Must be able to work weekends.