ACTIVITIES: | Manufacturing work on the plant floor, standing or sitting for long hours, bending, stooping, and lifting. |
HEARING: | Must be able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information, sometimes with loud background noise. |
REPETITIVE MOTION: | Must be able to frequently and regularly use wrists, hands, and or fingers. |
VISUAL ABILITIES: | Average, ordinary visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents, products, or operate machinery. |
PHYSICAL STRENGTH: | Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds throughout the day. |
WORKING CONDITIONS: | Must be able to work for long hours in a no-kill food processing environment, where it is wet, damp, and cold. Employees are expected to remain in these conditions for most of their work days |
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.