Job Description
Position Overview
The Night Shift Hatchery Supervisor is responsible for overseeing all hatchery operations during night hours, ensuring safe working conditions, high-quality chick production, and efficient staffing across both hatcheries. This role supports company safety, quality, and production standards while maintaining compliance with all regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Safety
- Maintain a safe work environment by monitoring safety trends and enforcing company safety policies.
- Ensure proper use of PPE, including hard hats, ear plugs, and hairnets, depending on the work area.
- Conduct daily safety inspections and weekly safety observations.
- Promote safe work practices among all employees.
Quality
- Ensure the hatchery team produces high‑quality chicks for the broiler department.
- Uphold animal welfare standards and best management practices in both hatchery and field environments.
- Maintain a zero‑defect standard across all operations.
- Verify proper sanitation procedures are consistently followed.
Production
- Oversee all hatchery operations during the night shift.
- Ensure eggs are processed accurately, efficiently, and on schedule.
- Coordinate with Hatchery Management to align nightly schedules with production needs.
- Manage staffing levels to adequately support both hatcheries.
Operational & Administrative Duties
- Reassign employees as needed to ensure proper staffing on processing days.
- Collect and manage quality performance data.
- Complete weekly payroll for hatchery employees.
- Collaborate with management to resolve operational or personnel issues.
- Ensure compliance with all state and federal regulations.
- Order supplies for both hatcheries, including vaccines and essential materials.
- Work with internal and external partners to meet all audit requirements, with an expectation of 100% compliance.
Working Conditions
Work may occur in office, hatchery, feed mill, or outdoor environments. Conditions vary based on operational needs.
Basic Qualifications:
- One year’s or more experience in a processing or manufacturing environment.
- Must have knowledge of hatchery of baby chicks.
- Previous supervisory experience a must.
- Self-motivated and detail oriented.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to recognize and advise when unsafe conditions are observed.
- Computer skills to include Microsoft Office Suite Programs (Outlook, Word, Excel).
Education: Degree preferred
EOE, including disability/vets
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mayfield, KY |
| Industry | Manufacturing - Other |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
About Company
Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Our corporate headquarters is in Greeley, Colorado. We employ approximately 38,000 people and have the capacity to process more than 36 million birds per week for a total of more than 9.5 billion pounds of live chicken annually.Pilgrim's products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company's primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico. We currently operate in 12 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. These states include Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Pilgrim's Pride is a part of the JBS USA family. JBS S.A., the world's largest protein company, owns 75.5% of our outstanding common stock. Click here for more information on the JBS family of proteins.
Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Computer Skillsunmatched
- Corporate Policiesunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Environmental Monitoringunmatched
- Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft Outlookunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Order Suppliesunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Sanitationunmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vaccinationunmatched
- Workplace Issuesunmatched
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