Production Floor Lead

The Production Floor Lead is responsible for assisting the Hatchery Manager and Assistant Hatchery Manager by monitoring and maintaining a good production flow while ensuring chick quality.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Start mixing procedures for vaccine.
• Connect vaccine bags to PSP main lines and prime pumps allowing excess air to be removed.
• Check for defective needles and correct baffle placement.
• Inspect each PSP prior to startup and sign off on animal welfare form.
• Closely monitor the quality control personnel, ensuring high quality chicks and proper spraying of vaccines.
• Separate and inventory all chicks by flock, accounting for cull chicks and estimating for extras.
• Coordinating with the sexing team, set the tone for speed needed and when stops should take place.
• Verify daily processing totals, from each PSP, and match those numbers to the floor count.
• Monitor for a minimum of 7” of liquid nitrogen in each vaccine container and log all readings.
• Check for overall cleanliness on the chick processing room.
• Maintain, organize, and clean the laboratory
• Produce bi-monthly inventory of vaccines to the front office.
• Inventory and ensure proper levels of all vaccine supplies i.e. tubing, needles, dyes, and drip chambers.
• Take chick temperatures
• Tracking and documentation to comply with animal welfare

Additional Duties:

• Perform other job duties as assigned.
• Cover for team members during vacations, absences, etc. which may require occasional tasks outside the scope of your job.

All our deliveries and services are subject to our general conditions of sale and delivery, which is available by post on request or can be viewed or downloaded from our website: hendrixgenetics.

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Required Skills/Abilities:

• Understand the importance of “high quality” chicks as described in the Animal Welfare Training
• Ability to use and set syringes for proper penetration levels.
• Understanding of how to identify and relocate “cull chicks” as described in the Animal Welfare

Training

• Ability to read labeled dose amounts and adjust as need.
• Must have good accounting of chicks, vaccine, and food supplement.
• Precise hand/eye coordination
• Understanding of and focus on equipment cleanliness and cleaning procedures.
• Good communication skills
• Accuracy is essential.

Education and Experience:

• Knowledge of NovaTech equipment operation.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to stand on feet for 10 hours consecutively per day.
• Regularly required to sit or stand, bend and reach.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Extended hours
• Monday to Friday
• Morning shift

Ability to Relocate:

• Grand Island, NE 68801: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person