Scale Operator - 2nd Shift

Opportunity

Your hourly competitive starting pay – $22.50/hour.

Shift differential: $1.00.

Schedule:

4:00 PM – 12:45 AM.

Benefits include comprehensive health insurance, retirement benefits, education benefits for eligible full‑ and part‑time team members, and professional development opportunities.

As a General Production team member, you will play a key role in delivering safe, high‑quality food by performing essential production tasks and supporting your coworkers.

• Use hand tools, knives, machinery, and other equipment to process meat products.
• Perform duties that may be physically demanding and require good hand‑eye coordination, attention to detail, and the ability to work scheduled shifts and overtime as required.
• Make appropriate weight, temperature, time, and other checks to ensure product quality as set by management.
• Complete all company‑required paperwork to document periodic quality checks, account for produced product, and provide other records such as entering information into the ADC system.
• Read schedule and calculate the correct tree count per product scheduled.
• Check hanging inventory and lot availability to ensure the lots are scheduled to be packed and are approved to pack per food safety.
• Check temperature of all products to make sure it is within the appropriate temperature guidelines allowed by food safety.
• Communicate all information regarding product changes to Line Leads in a sufficient amount of time.
• Issue, manually issue, and reverse product trees to production.
• Assist Tree Strippers as needed.
• Qualify as a tree pusher through classroom training as well as on‑the‑job training.
• Operate the Lowerator by following the appropriate procedure to ensure employee safety.
• Continuously lift product weighing up to 40 pounds.
• Use a stripper knife to open netting or bags on product.
• Exert maximum muscle force to push trees up to 2,000 pounds on a regular basis.
• Check product for non‑conformances per product specification.
• Maintain yield by executing job tasks with minimal waste.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Perform tasks that require continuous/repetitive movement, including grasping, pinching hands, flexing, and extending arms.
• Stand on concrete and/or platforms for up to a 12‑hour shift.
• Work around animal blood and/or carcass parts.
• Use a knife (if trained).
• Work in cold areas (approximately 20‑40°F) and/or warm areas (over 100°F).
• Work in a wet and humid environment.
• Work while wearing a hard hat, hearing/eye protection, and steel‑toed safety shoes.
• Work in a noisy environment using personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Work with sanitation/cleaning chemicals.
• Work around strong smells/odors.
• Climb/move on ladders, steps, stairways, walkways, and platforms.
• Bend, stoop, and twist repetitively over the course of an entire shift.
• Walk long distances.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Perform repetitive overhead lifting up to 30 lbs.
• Lifting single heavy objects weighing up to 60 lbs.
• Use mechanical assistance for lifting if needed.
• Work in wet, humid, noisy, and varied temperature environments.
• Wear appropriate PPE and safety gear at all times.

Relocation package available.

Smithfield is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic as directed by law. If you have a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call 757‑357‑1595.