Hatchery Worker

Hatchery Worker at Hoover's Hatchery MO, LLC in Mount Vernon, MO.

SOC 45-2093: 100% of work performed. Employees will work in a chicken hatchery production facility that incubates chicken eggs, hatches chicks, separates chicks by sex, packages customer chick orders, and ships chicks to customers. Work begins with receiving eggs and moving them through the hatchery process by placing eggs on trays, loading trays into incubators, transferring eggs from incubators to hatchers, and loading chicks into separator equipment for sex sorting by examining feathers and colors of chicks to segregate chicks according to sex. Employees will assist in all areas of the hatchery and farms, including toe, wing, and beak clipping, vaccinating, receiving, loading, and unloading eggs and chicks in the hatchery, at farms, and at shipping locations, and driving to farms and shipping locations using vans to support movement of eggs and chicks. They will also fill customer orders, package chicks for shipment, dump product waste, clean and sanitize the facility and equipment, and perform all other duties as assigned. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at their previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate.

Work begins January 9, 2027 and ends September 22, 2027.

Pay is $18.71 per hour.

Housing is provided.

Typical schedule: about 40 hours per week.