Final Grinder​/Lift - 2nd Shift

Your Opportunity

Our team members receive industry‑leading wages and are eligible for great benefits packages:

• Hourly Competitive Starting Pay – $22.50/hour
• $1.00/hour shift differential for 2nd and 3rd shift positions
• Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More.
• Education benefit available to full‑time and part‑time Smithfield teams members upon meeting eligibility requirements

In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth and professional development.

As a Powered Equipment Operator team member at Smithfield Foods, you’ll play a key role in delivering safe, high‑quality food by performing essential production tasks and supporting your coworkers. Your reliability, attention to detail, and strong work ethic will help us meet our standards for safety, quality, and teamwork every day.

You’ll contribute to a positive work environment, help maintain a safe and efficient production line, and ensure our products reach families across America. Your dedication and willingness to learn will make a real difference—both to your team and to our mission of delivering good food responsibly.

Powered Equipment Operators will work with forklifts, jack lifts, high lifts, and powered industrial trucks to support movement of product throughout the facility. These positions require meeting specific certifications during the qualification period. The positions can be physically demanding and require good hand‑eye coordination, attention to detail, ability to work scheduled shifts and may require overtime depending on production demands.

All applicants must be at least 18 years of age.

• Understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Perform a task requiring 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
• Ability to work with a box cutter
• Work in cold areas (approximately 20‑40 degrees) and/or warm areas (over 100 degrees)
• Work in an environment that is wet and humid
• 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
• May require certification in order to operate various pieces of equipment required for the position
• May require lifting up to 30 lbs overhead and lifting of heavy objects up to 60 lbs, or lifting using mechanical assistance
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus
• Additional essential functions may be applicable to specific jobs

These duties are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skill requirements of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

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 veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non‑job characteristic as directed by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757‑357‑1595.