Live Hanger

Position Summary: The Live Hanger worker quickly and effectively hangs live birds by the legs within a moving shackle line, ensuring the line is full.

General Purpose: The Live Hanger is responsible for hanging chicken while adhering to the company animal welfare policy, along with other state and local laws.

Role Responsibilities and Qualifications:

Employee will need to be able to:
• Hot and moist environment with temperatures ranging from 50 to 90 degrees.
• Stand/walk 100% of workday
• Exposure to noise levels greater than 85 decibels.
• Bend, stoop, and lift various weights as needed.
• Climb stairs, frequently stoop, kneel, crawl and bend.
• Exposure to strong, raw, and foul odors.
• Manual dexterity of hands and wrists.
• Repetitively lift 5–10 pound birds throughout the workday.
• Ability to withstand working with live birds.
• Hang chickens on shackles while abiding by animal welfare policies adhered to and required by all employees.
• Rapid, repetitive grasping and hanging of live birds by the feet into overhead shackles.

Education and/or Experience:
• No prior experience or training
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• Be dependable and honest
• Time management: the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Strong team player
• Commitment to company values
• Be able to work overtime when needed to including Saturday
• Wear employer-specified protective gear, including gloves, face/eye shields, aprons/smock, boots, etc. (some of which to be supplied by employer).
• Exposure to chemical cleaning solution (with protective gear)
• Perform varying tasks while standing, lifting, crouching, etc. during long periods of time.
• Perform all tasks safely and in a manner that will not create or pose a direct threat to the health and/or safety of the worker or any other person.

Physical Demands and work environment: The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions
of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: Be able to efficiently work in a plant environment. Lift up to 10 lbs. repetitively. Moderate to Heavy amount of physical effort required. Constant standing, simple and power grasping of the hands, fine manipulation/feeling with the hands, reaching at and below shoulder level, repetitive motion of the shoulders, arms, and hands, light to moderate lifting/carrying, use of vision. Inside the production plant and around plant grounds expose employee to loud equipment/machines; walking around drains, footbaths, hoses; wet environment, occasional dust.

Work environment: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and extreme cold and hot. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.