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About the company

Rossdown Farms Ltd. is seeking dependable and hardworking individuals to join our team as Hatchery Workers at our Abbotsford, BC location. This role involves supporting daily hatchery operations, handling poultry, and maintaining a clean and safe working environment while ensuring the highest standards of animal care and welfare. No formal education is required, and on-site training will be provided to successful candidates.

Your tasks

Job Description:

• Perform all production duties in the hatchery, such as pulling chicks from hatchers.
• Follow cleaning and disinfection protocol of building, hatchers, and incubators.
• Maintain and operate Embrex machine while transferring eggs.
• Follow correct vaccine mixing protocol.
• Catch and remove live chickens out of the predetermined assigned poultry barns and place them into crates.
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
• Ensure compliance with all of the company's rules, including all of the governmental regulations.
• Abide by all animal welfare standards.

Requirements

Requirements: Education: Not Required.

Experience: Experience is an asset. Training will be provided on-site.

Working Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Fast-paced environment, work under pressure, tight deadlines, repetitive tasks, handling heavy loads, physically demanding, hand-eye coordination, combination of sitting, standing, walking, standing for extended periods, bending, crouching, kneeling.

Personal Suitability: Organized, team player, reliability.

Weight Handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).

• Must not have any type of allergies to the materials used within and around the bird barns/farms (e.g., hay and woodchip products used on the barns' floors or bedding, chicken feathers, and chicken feces/acid odors).
• Function under repetitive movement of certain parts of the palms, fingers, wrist, hand, lower arm, upper arm, shoulder, and back movements, while bending the top half of the body over for prolonged periods of time.
• Remain drug and alcohol free to perform in a safety-sensitive functional position.
• Prolonged concentration is required while catching the chickens to ensure that they are not injured during this process.

What we offer

Pay: $18.25-$20.00 per hour

Other

Type of Employment: Full time - Permanent

Estimated Start Date: As soon as possible

Work Site Environment: Outdoors, wet/damp, noisy, odors, dusty, hot, cold/refrigerated.

Job Type: Permanent

Work Location: In person