Cobb - Three Springs Growout house worker

Tyson•Rose, OK

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Attend to and care for birds in grow out houses; inspect birds to determine quality and progress. This role involves weighing birds weekly, maintaining and sanitizing the breakroom, boot rooms, equipment, and vehicles, vaccinating and isolating birds to affect disease control, administering medications, and euthanizing weak/ill birds in accordance with company policy. The jobsite is a bio-secure environment requiring showering and changing clothing/footwear before entering the facility. Appropriate clothing and footwear are provided. No jewelry may be worn on the jobsite except for medical ID jewelry and body piercings covered by appropriate clothing. Applicants must be willing to sign an agreement to avoid any avian species and abide by Company Biosecurity and Animal Welfare Guidelines.

Requirements

Must have at least 12 months of consecutive work history with one employer and no additional job gaps in employment greater than 6 months in the past 36 months.
If applicant has been laid off or providing child or elder care, the employment gap will be increased to 18 months.
Previous work history will not apply to applicants who have been full time students consecutively for the last 36 months.
Rehire criteria is a minimum waiting period of 180 days.
Rehire Rule of no more than 3 times worked at Cobb/Tyson Foods.
Must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, items such as bags of shavings, feed buckets, bags of mortality & etc.
Regularly required to stand majority of shift on multiple floor surfaces (i.e. concrete floor, shavings); walk; sit; use hands to handle or feel objects and controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; climbing/ladder usage; stoop/bend up to 300 times per day; talk or hear; drive a vehicle within the farm complex.
Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and the ability to adjust focus.
Required to work on wet, slippery surfaces and in hot, dry, extreme dusty, dark, wet, icy, snowy and cold environments.
Low lighting conditions should be expected.
Safety goggles, safety glasses, face shield, chemical gloves, waterproof apron, headlamps, and company issued footwear are required.
Ear plugs will be used as required.
NIOSH approved N95 particulate respirators will be worn as needed.
Must be willing to sign an agreement to avoid any avian species (chickens, ducks, birds, etc.).
Must be willing to sign and abide by the Company Biosecurity and Company Animal Welfare Guidelines.
Applicants must reside in the United States to be considered for an interview.

Nice To Haves

Previous agricultural or production experience

Responsibilities

Weigh correct amounts of feed and water birds according to schedules; walk floors daily to inspect water lines, pick up and dispose of mortality, and examine birds for signs of a weak or sick bird.
Drive farm truck to feed conversion houses to load birds ready for grow houses; transfer birds to grow out house via 4’ x 5’ door from outside Team Member to inside Team Member and place in appropriate pens.
Calculate pen size based on bird numbers to be received and adjust to provide adequate feeder, water, and space for birds; place pen partitions according to calculations; manage floor by turning/adding shavings.
Adjust controls to regulate temperature and humidity of the poultry house per instruction.
Sort birds by breast size (fleshing); collect weekly samples for corporate lab of cleft pallet swabs, feed, and shavings samples.
Inspect birds to determine quality and progress by weighing birds weekly.
Maintenance and sanitation of breakroom, boot rooms, equipment, and vehicles.
Vaccinate and isolate birds to affect disease control program.
Administer medications to birds as needed, such as vitamins, etc.
Properly euthanize weak/ill birds in accordance with company policy.