Palletizer

Your Opportunity

Smithfield Foods is a $15 billion global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. In the United States, the company is also the leader in numerous packaged meats categories. Popular brands include Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan's Famous, Farmland, Armour, Farmer John, Kretschmar, John Morrell, Cook's, Gwaltney, Carando, Margherita, Curly's, Healthy Ones, Morliny, Krakus, and Berlinki. Smithfield Foods is committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintains robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental and food safety and quality programs.

Core Responsibilities

Lifts and stacks 5lbs-60lbs boxes of product while keeping up with line speed

Changes ADC labels and prints them out

Identifies pallet pattern and height

Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or lead

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

• Knowledge and experience in Meat Industry is preferred, but not required
• Competent and trustworthy to comply with federal inspection programs and company safety and health policies
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance
• Be available to work scheduled hours, which may include mandatory overtime, depending upon production demands
• Must be able to continuously lift up to 60lbs
• Detail orientated
• Being able to understand and follow oral and written instruction from supervisors and designated staff

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Working in cold environments of 20 to 45 F
• Working in hot environments exceeding 100 F
• Frequent contact with animal fats
• Carrying, lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling of heavy and or awkward objects or loads
• Lifting and lowering objects up to 60 lbs
• Walking long distances, sometimes on wet, uneven and slippery surfaces
• Using and maintaining a variety of knives, hand tools, powered tools, equipment, electrical devices, controls and powered industrial trucks
• Continuous walking short distances from point A to point B (up to 2-3 hours before break)
• Working at fixed workstation locations which are conveyor line paced
• Climbing or moving ladders, steps, stairwells and platforms
• Pushing or pulling of heavy roller carts, bins, or transport containers
• Frequent static and/or awkward work postures with neck and spine flexion while grasping, pinching, pulling, lifting, extending, flexing the hands and arms
• A variety of arm and hand movements are required in applying force, movement and repetition

Relocation Package Available No

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.