Rack Wash Material Handler

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Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Understand and follow oral and written instructions
• Transport empty and full racks (350-2500 lbs.) to production area, scales, & coolers
• Scale empty racks to get tare weight and document.
• Scale full racks to get complete weight and document.
• Load and unload product to and from racks
• Scoop product from vats/combos (approximately 5-40 lbs. per scoop)
• Working around animal blood and carcass parts, sanitation and cleaning chemicals, and other strong smells and odors.
• Work in temperatures ranging from 20 degrees to 100+ degrees in environments that can be wet, humid, and noisy.
• Work with a knife, if properly trained.
• Work while wearing a hard hat, hearing and eye protection, face masks, face shields, and steel toe shoes.
• In the absence of key personnel, the employee's supervisor or qualified designee (one that has been trained in the key employee's duties) is responsible to complete or delegate the completion of all required tasks and responsibilities.
• Other duties as assigned
• Additional essential functions may be applicable to specific jobs.

Physical Demands:

• Perform tasks that require continuous and repetitive movement, such as grasping and pinching your hands and flexing or extending your arms.
• Bend, stoop, and twist repetitively over the course of an entire shift.
• Stand on concrete and/or platforms for up to a 12-hours while walking long distances and climbing, or moving around, on ladders, steps, and stairways.
• Position requires heavy lifting of 10-150 lbs and moving racks, which weigh 350-2500 lbs. per rack. Some positions may require repetitive overhead lifting up to 30 lbs, single lifting of heavy objects which can weigh up to 60 lbs,or lifting of objects using mechanical assistance.
• This work is physically demanding and can require the use of some or all body parts and muscle groups.

** All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.

EEO Information

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.