Hatchery Embrex - Albertville
Description
Position at Pilgrim's
At Pilgrim’s, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always.
Pilgrim’s is seeking a Hatchery Embrex Team Member to play a key role in delivering healthy, high-quality chicks for our broiler operations. In this hands-on position, you’ll operate and monitor Embrex vaccination equipment, ensure accurate dosing, and maintain strict biosecurity standards. You’ll work in a fast-paced environment focused on safety, animal welfare, and product quality while supporting continuous improvement through attention to detail and teamwork. If you’re dependable, detail-oriented, and ready to make an impact in poultry production, this is a great opportunity to grow with a Company committed to excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in hatchery quality control, animal welfare, biosecurity, and safety programs; comply with low transfer crack assessment standards.
- Ensure correct egg placement in hatchers, monitor equipment for proper operation, and perform setup and cleanup of processes, halls, and setters.
- Maintain detailed records for egg placement, vaccine tracking, and transfer processes; monitor and report equipment performance issues.
- Fill in for absent team members, guide and train staff, assist with safety monitoring, and lead in addressing questions or concerns.
- Participate in egg set, chick processing, cross-training, and training guide development; work varied shifts, including nights, holidays, and weekends.
- Perform daily setup, dismantling, and sanitization of equipment to maintain operational readiness and cleanliness.
- Other duties as assigned
What You’ll Need:
- Education: High School Diploma/GED preferred.
- Experience: 1 or more years of production or manufacturing environment. Poultry or food industry experience is a plus.
- Skills: Effective communication both orally and in writing, ability to work with minimal supervision
- Physical requirements: Work in high-temperature environments (100+°F), tolerate odors, and handle repetitive lifting/pushing of 50 lbs or more with continuous physical activity.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
- Must not raise any poultry or birds
Why Work for Pilgrim’s?
- Schedule: The position is typically scheduled but not limited to:
- EGG SETTING: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 12AM
- EMBREX: Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday at 3AM Friday at 11AM
- Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;
- 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule;
- Starting Salary:
- Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs;
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us: Pilgrim’s is a leading global food company with more than 62,000 team members worldwide. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, frozen, and value-added food products for customers in more than 100 countries. Pilgrim’s operates protein processing plants and prepared foods facilities in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the U.K, the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
EOE, including disability/vets
Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.
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