Material Handler DC

The Value You’ll Bring

As a Material Handlers/Powered Equipment 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. You’ll contribute to a positive work environment, help maintain a safe and efficient production line, and ensure our products reach families across America. Your dedication and willingness to learn will make a real difference—both to your team and to our mission of delivering good food, responsibly.

What You’ll Do

• Work with forklifts, jack lifts, high lifts, powered industrial trucks to support movement of product throughout the facility.
• Meet specific certifications during the qualification period.
• Work with physical demands such as continuous/repetitive movement, standing for up to a 12-hour shift, working around animal blood and/or carcass parts, working in cold and/or warm areas, working in a noisy environment, and using PPE.
• Perform tasks that 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.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Continuous/repetitive movement, including grasping, pinching hands, flexing, and extending arms.
• Standing on concrete and/or platforms for up to a 12-hour shift.
• Working around animal blood and/or carcass parts.
• Working in cold areas (approximately 20-40 degrees) and/or warm areas (over 100 degrees).
• Working in a noisy environment.
• Bending, stooping, and twisting repetitively over the course of an entire shift.
• Walking long distances.
• Moving on ladders, steps, stairways, walkways, and platforms.
• May require certification in order to operate various pieces of equipment required for the position.

Additional Essential Functions

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Additional essential functions may be applicable to specific jobs.

Relocation Package Available

No EEO Information

Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.