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A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We are an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. We’re looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us. Apply Now!
Your Opportunity
Our team members receive industry-leading wages and are eligible for great benefits packages:
- Hourly Competitive Starting Pay – $19.65/hour
- $1.25/hour shift differential for 3rd shift positions
- Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More.
- Education benefit available to full- and part time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment.
In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth and professional development.
Core Responsibilities
- Bacon Rollers supplied with proper sized bacon and correctly and efficiently de-comb and stack bellies.
- Organize and clean coolers when necessary.
- Provides appropriate scaling, record keeping and inventory rotation.
- Pushes out trees of bacon according to average and lot number to designated Bacon Roller.
- Removes belly from tree asides to table.
- Removes combs from bellies and asides combs neatly onto rod of comb truck.
- Positions empty flats, stacks bellies in rows and prescribed and asides flats.
- Asides empty trees to smokehouse alley.
- Cleans coolers and trims bellies as required.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Ability to work well with others in fast paced, dynamic environment.
- Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
The work environment characteristics & physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Lighting good, ventilation fair, temperature about 48°. M
- Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
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.
What We Do
Headquartered in Smithfield, Va. since 1936, Smithfield Foods, Inc. is an American food company with agricultural roots and a global reach. With more than 60,000 jobs globally, we are dedicated to producing "Good food. Responsibly®" and serve as one of the world's leading vertically integrated protein companies.
We have pioneered sustainability standards for more than two decades, including our industry-leading commitments to become carbon negative in U.S. company-owned operations and reduce GHG emissions 30 percent across our entire U.S. value chain by 2030. We believe in the power of protein to end food insecurity and have donated hundreds of millions of food servings to our communities. Smithfield boasts a portfolio of high-quality iconic brands, such as Smithfield®, Eckrich® and Nathan's Famous®, among many others.