Hatchery Sanitation and Transfer Technician

Prestage•Clinton, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Prestage Farms is seeking a Hatchery Sanitation and Transfer Technician to assist in the cleaning and sterilizing of machinery and equipment used to process or store eggs, poults, and other related items in the hatchery.

Requirements

Ability to read and comprehend instructions
Communicate both verbally and in writing
Perform simple mathematical skills
Must shower before entering the facility and wear a company uniform
Work with and around disinfectant type chemicals and moving mechanical parts
Perform constant walking, lifting, and bending
Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms
Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Responsibilities

Turn valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnect pipes
Spray machines, incubators, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter; lubricate machinery
Scrub machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors; rinse articles with water and dry them with compressed air
Scrub floors and walls; mix cleaning solutions and diluted acids
Connect hoses and lines to pump; start pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines
Draw off samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks for laboratory analysis
Replace defective sections of metal coils and lines
Assist other departments as needed
Place eggs in incubator trays, wad paper between eggs to secure them, and clip trays to incubator racks
Transfer trays from incubator to hatchery and remove paper wads from between eggs to make room for hatching poults
Transfer hatched poults from trays to poult boxes and count out prescribed number of poults to each box section
Supply baby chicks to other workers for sexing, trimming, and debeaking
Prepare poults for delivery to designated farms or commercial growing establishments