Wage Type: Hourly
Department: General Production
Reports to: Production Manager
Shift: 1st
Hours
1st Shift
SUMMARY: This position is responsible for manually placing Smart Chicken onto product trays that meet production and quality standards in a fast-paced environment.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES:
* Place individual trays onto the conveyor belt
* Pull/push 5-8 pounds of product towards work area
* Select quality product from the conveyor to place into a tray
* Discard pieces of Smart Chicken that do not meet quality standards to rework
* Place 1 to 2 pieces of Smart Chicken in the tray
* Keep work area clean
* Follow all SOP's for your area
* Follow all safety policies and procedures
* Other duties as assigned
* Demonstrate excellent attendance and punctuality
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
* Strong hand/eye coordination
* Good upper extremity motor skills
* Ability to rotate job functions
* Ability to wear, use and maintain personal protective equipment
* Ability to follow all safety policies and procedures
* Ability to take direction and learn by observing others
Physical / Environment:
* Stand: Continuously (8 or more hours)
* Grasp: Continuously (picking up product to place on trays)
* Pull/Push: Occasionally (5-8 lbs of product toward work area)
* Lift: Continuously (2-12 ounces) Occasionally (up to 20-30 lbs.)
* Other Physical Requirements:
* Continuously reach above shoulder (up to 2 ft)
* Bend Continuously over conveyor belt while placing product on trays
* Physical Environment: Continuously work around moving machinery, working in a damp, slippery and cold environment (below 40 degrees F)).
Work Shift:
ALL SHIFTS (United States of America)
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Springdale, AR
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.
It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.
It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.