Hatchery Laborer - Ellenwood Hatchery (Shift Varies)

Job Description
Pay Rate:
$17.20 per hour
(Additional $1.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:
00pm and 11:
59pm. Additional $2.00 per hour for hours worked between 12:
00am-4:
59am)
Must be able to work weekends.
To receive, prepare, and sort eggs for the purpose of setting a higher quality egg pack to the incubators. Prepare supplies and load backhauls ensuring clean supplies and maximizing backhaul ratio. Maintain accurate inventories ensuring oldest eggs set first. Operate the Automatic Rack Transfer machine in a safe manner while maximizing efficiencies.
Clean and disinfect buildings and equipment so that each will pass quality control bacterial level standards. Pull hatcher racks, load chicks onto the separator, grade chicks, operate hatcher basket stackers and palletize serviced chicks. Transfer eggs from incubators through In-Ovo injection equipment to hatchers while minimizing breakage and temperature shock to developing embryos.
Prepare egg sets using Automatic Rack Transfer machine and SST pallets or from other types of supplies, by hand or with vacuum operated egg shifter. Prepare egg supplies—build clean SST pallets of flats to backhaul height. Load onto trucks with pallet jack. Receive eggs from Colorado, Arkansas, and outside purchase. Unload and ready these eggs for traying. Unload eggs using a mechanical or power jack.
Responsible for using high pressure hose to clean and disinfect buildings and equipment (i.E., hatcher rooms, hatcher trays, hatcher racks, egg flats, hatching machines, set hall, and tray wash room).
Pull hatcher racks, load chicks onto the separator, and palletize serviced chicks. Rack pulling. Transport hatcher racks full of chicks to the service area. Ensure proper operation of spray vaccination machine. Grade chicks for quality.
Transfer scheduled eggs from incubators through the In-Ovo injection equipment to the
Proper hatcher. Using power/garden hose and equipment-cleaning cart sanitize equipment and rooms after transfer. Responsible for removing broken and/or highly contaminated eggs from hatcher trays.