Hatchery Process Lead — Lead Egg Hatch Ops & Quality

Perdue Farms Inc.; Mount Vernon (WA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx

401(k) with employer match

Dental

Job summary

Perdue Foods seeks a Hatchery Process Lead to guide hatchery associates and maintain optimal conditions for high-quality chicks. You will monitor equipment, train staff, and ensure processes run smoothly to support our production system.

The role offers a base pay with premiums, potential overtime, and a comprehensive benefits package. Shift schedule aligns with hatchery operations and requires strict safety and cleanliness standards.

Qualifications

• High school or equivalent.
• 1 year experience in hatchery processing.
• Some basic mechanical/electrical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Monitor operations of egg setters and hatchers, ensuring consistent proper temperature and humidity levels are maintained.
• Conduct and records machine checks every three hours.
• Identify and resolve common equipment malfunctions in a timely manner.
• Coordinate receipt of nightly effluent shipments verifying accuracy of shipping documentation.
• Arrange flocks within effluent room to facilitate identification and movement at required set times.
• Reload effluent trough with filled buggies.
• Ensure effluent room is cleaned and disinfected weekly and/or as required.
• Prepare set sheet ensuring proper effluent rotation based on effluent pack dates.
• Coordinate setting of effluent buggies nightly, transferring from farm buggies to setter racks.
• Prepare hatchery for daily processing.
• Coordinate padding of chick boxes nightly, ensures trash is emptied, starts boiler, loads box de-stacker, moves empty effluent buggies from tray washroom to hatch halls.
• Coordinate and perform salmonella intervention, pouring formaldehyde in hatchers at designated intervals following transfer.
• Oversee and perform hatchery disinfection, ensuring all set and hatch halls are fogged nightly.
• Operates try wash machine, washing chick boxes weekly or as required.

Education

High school or equivalent

Job description

Perdue Foods seeks a Hatchery Process Lead to guide hatchery associates and maintain optimal conditions for high-quality chicks. You will monitor equipment, train staff, and ensure processes run smoothly to support our production system.

The role offers a base pay with premiums, potential overtime, and a comprehensive benefits package. Shift schedule aligns with hatchery operations and requires strict safety and cleanliness standards.