Hatchery Worker - Maintenance

Work description

SOC 45-2093 — 100% of work performed. Employees work in a chicken hatchery production facility where chicken eggs are received, placed on trays, loaded into incubators, transferred from incubators to hatchers, and managed through hatching, chick separation, packaging, and shipment to customers. Work includes examining feathers and colors of chicks to segregate chicks according to sex, then assisting with toe, wing, and beak clipping, vaccinating, and loading chicks into the separator as part of chick processing and order fulfillment. Employees also receive, load, and unload eggs and chicks in the hatchery, at farms, and at shipping locations, drive to farms and shipping locations using vans, and help fill customer orders by preparing chicks for shipment. Throughout the operation, employees assist in maintenance duties throughout the hatchery to include machinery, fleet, and facility, dump product waste, clean and sanitize the facility and equipment, and perform all other duties as assigned. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at their previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate.