Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· Processing: Grades approximately 60,000 chicks. Operates robot to vaccinate and beak trim approximately 2,000 chicks per hour, per customer order.
Performs toe trim on approximately 8,000 chicks for identification purposes if required.
Stack and move approximately 600 boxes of processed chicks.
Performs dubbing on combs and dotting heads on approximately 8,000 chicks for identification purposes (25%).
· Egg Trayer: Must be able to read, write and perform simple math to assist Shipping Clerk with preparing international egg shipments. Transfers up to 100 or more cases of eggs from a pallet and stack up to approximately 5 feet high onto another pallet and label cases. Assist Shipping Clerk with preparing domestic egg shipment and moves approximately 25-50 farm buggies full of eggs on/off the egg truck and into proper place within the Egg Room daily. Assist with egg sets and inventory of eggs and buggies and moves setters buggies to the proper place. Keeps hatching eggs separated by flock and line type. Maintain a clean and organized work area (25%).
· Sanitation: Washes and sanitizes 26 setter buggies using a pressure washer. Place approximately 2,520 egg flats weighing 506 grams into a washer to be washed and sanitized. Washes and sanitizes approximately 42 farm buggies using pressure washer. Place approximately 1,500 chick boxes weighing an average of 2 pounds into washer to be washed and sanitized. Dumping cull eggs, pulling empty farm and setter buggies to the Egg Room and washing and sanitizing both sides of the pull room and the dirty side box room with pressure washer. Cleans and sanitizes the hatchery with a pressure washer. Washes troughs on Wednesday and Thursday with a water hose. Washes and sanitizes the dirty side box room with a pressure washer. Cleans and sanitizes the hatchery with a pressure washer. Washes and sanitizes the dirty side box room with a pressure washer. Set eggs in setters and inspect chicks in hatchers. Cleans and sanitizes the hatchers and hallways with a pressure washer Cleans and sanitizes the holding room, box room and approximately 200 dollies weighing up to approximately 5 pounds. Pull approximately 42 buggies of empty hatcher trays weighing approximately 150 pounds back to the hatcher rooms. Reads setters and hatchers every three hours. Pulls out approximately 36 stacks of 40 chick boxes for the Pull Crew (25%).
Other Duties, Responsibilities and Activities
· Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. Such as: Janitor - Maintains offices, breakroom, restrooms and showers, including floors, walls, windows and dusting/cleaning shelves and desks, in order to ensure everything is kept in a clean, sanitary and orderly condition. Launder towels and clothes to maintain an adequate supply for up to 45 employees. Read temperatures and turn-failures in setters and read temperature and humidity in incubators, every three hours, help wash and foam rooms using a high pressure hose and regular water hose, pull loaded setter buggies on casters weighing approximately 700-1300 pounds, maintain boot washes and hand sanitizer, operate box washer, maintain a clean and organized work area. Properly euthanize weak/ill chicks in accordance with company policy.