Assistant Ranch Fore Drive-On - Dept 478 - Placer Ranch 3 (Shift Varies) - Foster Farms : Job Details

Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. We are committed to providing high-quality, great-tasting poultry products. Our values include excellence, honesty, quality, and service. We operate like a family business, offering opportunities for internal promotion and cross-functional experience.

Job Details

Pay Rate: $18.75 per hour

(Additional $1.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:00pm and 11:59pm. Additional $2.00 per hour for hours worked between 12:00am-4:59am)

Essential Job Functions:

• Assist the Ranch Manager in overseeing all ranch activities, including fryers and fryer ranch operations.
• Help direct the grow-out process by setting up the ranch, managing brooding, temperatures, ventilation, mortality, vaccinations, and medications to ensure high-quality conditions.
• Maintain ranch facilities, coordinating with the maintenance department for needed materials and services.
• Enforce sanitation procedures, monitor bird health, and report abnormalities.
• Respond responsibly to emergencies affecting the chickens, day or night.
• Assist in managing ranch production costs, including labor, fuel, supplies, utilities, medications, and maintenance.
• Keep accurate records of ranch activities such as feed, mortality, fuel, production, and energy use.
• Provide training and delegate duties to ranch personnel, adhering to safety, animal welfare, and disease prevention guidelines.
• Coordinate with feed mill dispatchers, drivers, maintenance personnel, and field supervision regularly.
• Supervise and direct daily ranch production activities, including setup/cleanup, brooding, vaccination, maintenance, feed delivery, and relief personnel.

Qualifications:

• Completed the Chicken Grow Out Training Program.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Possess supervisory and leadership skills.
• Good mathematical and organizational skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills (Basic English).
• Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds.
• Mechanical aptitude preferred.
• Willing to respond to alarms and adverse conditions affecting chickens.
• Flexible to work overtime, evenings, holidays, and weekends as needed.
• Ability to enforce company standards and policies on the ranch.
• Willing to work at other ranches or complexes as required.

Additional Information

All information will be kept confidential per EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employerencouraging minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

We participate in E-Verify during the hiring process at all locations for new team members.