Hatchery Worker - Maintenance
Employer: Hoover's Hatchery NM LLC
Location: Portales, NM
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $15.96/hour
Season: Jan 9, 2027 – Sep 22, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
In this chicken hatchery production facility, SOC 45-2093 represents 100% of the work performed, and employees carry out the full flow of hatchery operations from handling incoming chicken eggs through incubation, hatching, chick sexing, order preparation, and shipment to customers. Work begins with receiving eggs, placing them on trays, loading trays into incubators, and later transferring eggs from incubators to hatchers, while also receiving, loading, and unloading eggs and chicks at the hatchery, at farms, and at shipping locations. After chicks hatch, employees examine feathers and colors to segregate chicks according to sex, load chicks into the separator, and assist with toe, wing, and beak clipping and vaccinating as needed in the hatchery and on farms. They fill customer chick orders, package chicks for shipment, and load and unload chicks for transport, including driving to farms and shipping locations using vans as part of the movement of eggs and chicks between work sites. Throughout the operation, they also support maintenance duties across machinery, fleet, and facility, clean and sanitize equipment and work areas, dump product waste, and perform all other duties as assigned to keep hatchery and farm operations running efficiently. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at their previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate. Job requires extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements, and lifting up to 75 lbs.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration), cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g. adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.
Transport: The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.
Experience wanted: 3 months
Job requires extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements, and lifting up to 75 lbs. Must possess a valid, standard, non-commercial driver's license (e.g., Class C, D, R, E, F or 3 depending on state). Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Employee must have 3 months of verifiable experience.
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