Farm Worker

Vaquerias, Inc.; Dublin (TX); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Free meals

Transport assistance

Job summary

H2ajobs is seeking a hands-on Poultry Farm Worker in Texas, USA. The role involves caring for flocks, handling eggs, and operating automated poultry equipment in a live-hatch environment.

You will monitor birds, ensure sanitation and biosecurity, and report issues to supervision. Prior experience with Fienhage/Jansen aviary systems and Lubing equipment is preferred. Housing, meals, and transport are provided by the employer.

Qualifications

• 3 months experience with poultry production or similar role.
• Experience with Fienhage and Jansen aviary systems and Lubing equipment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on poultry production and flock care.
• Operate and monitor egg collection equipment and conveyors.
• Maintain sanitation, biosecurity, and equipment safety procedures.
• Identify and report flock or equipment abnormalities and take corrective action as directed.
• Assist with cleaning and minor maintenance of poultry-house equipment.

Skills

Poultry handling

Observation skills

Safety awareness

Maintenance basics

Teamwork

Tools

Fienhage aviary systems

Jansen aviary systems

Lubing poultry equipment

Job description

Crops: Chickens, Corn, Eggs, Grains, Manure, Poultry

Perform hands-on poultry production, flock care, egg handling, sanitation, biosecurity, equipment operation, preventative maintenance, and poultry-house preparation activities associated with a commercial egg-producing operation. Workers must be capable of recognizing common flock, equipment, egg-quality, feed, water, and environmental abnormalities and reporting or correcting problems according to established farm procedures.

Work involves different stages of the poultry production cycle and requires workers to safely work around live poultry, automated poultry equipment, manure, dust, feathers, feed, chemicals, and agricultural machinery.

Observe laying hens daily for signs of abnormal behavior, injury, illness, stress, dehydration, excessive mortality, feather loss, aggression, piling, decreased feed or water consumption, and other changes in normal flock condition. Identify and safely handle injured, weak, sick, dead, aggressive, or otherwise abnormal birds according to farm animal-welfare and mortality-management procedures. Monitor birds during different stages of the production cycle and recognize changes in behavior, feed and water consumption, egg production, egg quality, and environmental requirements as flocks mature. Walk poultry houses and inspect flock distribution, bird activity, nesting areas, feed systems, drinking systems, lighting, ventilation, cooling equipment, egg collection systems, manure systems, and other poultry-house equipment. Monitor and identify basic problems with automated poultry drinking systems, including leaking or obstructed drinkers, improper water flow, wet areas, and other conditions that could affect flock health or poultry-house conditions. Inspect automated feed delivery equipment, feed lines, hoppers, augers, motors, sensors, and related components for proper operation. Identify interruptions or abnormalities in feed delivery and notify supervision or assist with basic corrective action as directed. Observe poultry-house ventilation and environmental conditions and recognize obvious problems involving fans, air inlets, cooling systems, temperature, excessive dust, moisture, or inadequate airflow. Operate and monitor automated egg collection equipment and conveyor systems. Recognize jams, broken eggs, belt-tracking problems, accumulation of eggs, abnormal equipment movement, and other conditions that could damage eggs or interrupt production. Assist with minor maintenance, adjustment, cleaning, and repair of poultry and egg-handling equipment, including egg belts and conveyors, rollers, guides, bearings, motors, guards, sensors, feed-line components, drinker components, fans, and other farm equipment as directed. Safely shut down equipment when necessary and follow farm lockout/tagout and equipment-safety procedures before cleaning, adjustment, maintenance, or repair activities. Collect, move, sort, inspect, and handle eggs while minimizing cracks, contamination, breakage, and other product damage. Identify visibly cracked, leaking, excessively dirty, damaged, or otherwise unsuitable eggs and separate them according to established farm procedures. Monitor egg flow from poultry houses and assist in correcting conditions causing egg accumulation, breakage, contamination, or interruption of egg movement. Perform scheduled and production-cycle cleaning of poultry houses, egg collection areas, equipment, conveyors, farm work areas, and related

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Workers residing in employer-provided housing will be provided free transportation once per week to/from closest town or city for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services). Dining, kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas are shared by all workers. In the event that kitchen facilities become unavailable during the contract period, employer will provide three daily meals in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(g). In such circumstances, employer will deduct the cost of such meals up to the maximum allowable amount published in the Federal Register, or as otherwise approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Transport: Employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier (e.g., van, bus, plane) transportation charges for the distances involved for both inbound and outbound transportation. Inbound transportation provided from the foreign worker's home city to the U.S. consulate and from the U.S. Consulate to the work site.

Experience wanted: 3 months

Must have three months prior experience working with Fienhage and Jansen aviary systems and Lubing poultry equipment.