Hatchery Process Lead Job at Perdue Farms (Vincennes)

Job Description

As a Hatchery Process Lead, you take on a vital leadership role at the heart of hatchery operations. You guide, train, and support hatchery associates while closely monitoring equipment and processes to ensure everything runs at peak performance. By maintaining optimal environmental conditions, you help deliver healthy, high-quality chicks to our growers, playing a direct role in the success of our operations and the strength of our production system.

Job Responsibility

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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

1 year experience in hatchery processing
Some basic mechanical/electrical knowledge

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