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Herdsperson at Smithfield Foods

Compensation

$18/hr

Type
Full-time
Level
entry

Description

Smithfield is hiring a Herdsperson to support Herd Technicians with routine swine care and farm operations. The role involves feeding, watering, vaccinating, treating and moving pigs, processing piglets, recording production data, sanitizing facilities, maintaining equipment, and following animal welfare, environmental, safety, biosecurity, and operating procedures. It requires physical labor, teamwork, flexible scheduling including weekends, evenings, holidays, and emergency on-call coverage, and tolerance for farm conditions such as manure, dust, odors, animal dander, blood, antibiotics, and noise. The hourly rate is $17.75.

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