Barn Worker

Job Details

Position:
Animal Care and Handling (Entry Level)

Location:

Redwood Farms Meat Processors – Estherville, IA 51334
Job Type: Full Time
Education Level

Required:

None
Salary: $20.49 per hour

Travel Required:

None

Shift: 1st (Day Shift)
Job Category:
Other

Monday – Friday, 7:00am – 4:00pm
Additional hours may be required on a required or voluntary basis.

All areas of accountability to be delivered with GRIT – our values of Generosity, Relationships, Integrity, and Teamwork.

• Monitor, feed, water, and record daily care and activities of animals.
• Maintain a clean work environment including pens, unloading areas, etc.
• Assist with moving hogs from trucks into the facility; properly sort hogs into various pens.
• Complete paperwork for received hogs such as scale weights.
• Move hogs from pens to processing and complete euthanasia procedures, if assigned to that specific duty.
• Report problems and/or broken or damaged equipment, as needed.
• Maintain regular and predictable on-site attendance.

• Experience working with livestock, preferred.
• Working knowledge of humane handling; ability to attain sign‑off from management to handle animals within the first week of employment.
• Ability to identify and sort animals.
• Ability to accurately count, complete basic math operations, and read a scale to understand weights.
• Ability to communicate and accurately and legibly record information.
• Ability to follow all USDA, HACCP, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and work safely with animals and around sharp objects.
• Comfortable with euthanizing animals, if performing that specific duty.
• Ability to work in a facility that processes hogs; be comfortable working with and/or around blood.
• Must be 18 years of age or older for insurance purposes.

• Stand and/or walk up to 100% of workday.
• Consistently and repetitively perform tasks.
• Frequently lift/push/pull heavy objects up to 150 pounds.
• Consistently bend at the knees and/or waist in potentially awkward positions.
• Consistently turn and/or twist.
• Ability to work in an environment with extreme cold, wet/slippery conditions, and/or loud noise levels.

• Hourly starting wage of $20.49.
• Weekly paycheck.
• Health, dental, vision insurance.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Paid holidays.
• 401(k) match.
• Other benefits available.

Posición:
Animal Care and Handling (nivel de entrada)
Ubicación:
Redwood Farms Meat Processors – Estherville, IA 51334
Tipo de trabajo:
Tiempo completo
Nivel educativo requerido:
Ninguno
Salario: $20.49 por hora
Viaje requerido:
Ninguno
Turno: 1st (Day Shift)
Categoría de trabajo:
Otro

Lunes a Viernes, 7:00am – 4:00pm
Es posible que se requieran horas adicionales de forma obligatoria o voluntaria.

All areas of accountability to be delivered with GRIT – our values of Generosity, Relationships, Integrity, and Teamwork.

• Supervisar, alimentar, dar agua y registrar el cuidado y las actividades diarias de los animales.
• Mantener un entorno de trabajo limpio, incluyendo corrales, áreas de descarga, etc.
• Ayudar a trasladar los cerdos desde los camiones hasta las instalaciones; clasificarlos adecuadamente en los distintos corrales.
• Completar la documentación de los cerdos recibidos, como el peso en la báscula.
• Trasladar los cerdos de los corrales a la zona de procesamiento y realizar los procedimientos de eutanasia, si se le asigna esta tarea.
• Informar sobre problemas o equipos rotos o dañados, según sea necesario.
• Mantener una asistencia regular y puntual en las instalaciones.

• Se prefiere experiencia trabajando con ganado.
• Conocimientos prácticos de manejo humanitario; capacidad para obtener la autorización de la gerencia para manejar animales durante la primera semana de empleo.
• Capacidad para identificar y clasificar animales.
• Capacidad para contar con precisión, realizar operaciones matemáticas básicas y leer una báscula para comprender los pesos.
• Capacidad para comunicarse y registrar información de forma precisa y legible.
• Capacidad para cumplir con…