Jobs at Wayne-Sanderson Farms

Transfer eggs from buggies to setter machines, perform machine checks, move heavy egg buggies, and clean and sanitize hatchery equipment and work areas. Follow safety procedures, PPE requirements, animal welfare guidelines, and applicable laws. The role requires standing for extended periods, lifting up to 60 pounds, working in hot, wet, dusty conditions, and maintaining productivity across assigned shifts.

Supervise daily egg collection operations: schedule and manage staff, ensure equipment upkeep, enforce biosecurity and quality standards, train team members, maintain records, and handle employee performance and compliance.

Transfers eggs from buggies into setter machines, performs machine checks, moves heavy egg buggies, and cleans and sanitizes hatchery equipment and work areas. Follows company, animal welfare, safety, and regulatory requirements while wearing PPE. Requires independent work, availability for nights, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts, plus the ability to stand for up to eight hours, lift 60 pounds, and work in hot, wet, and dusty conditions.

Supervises poultry production lines and up to 100 employees while ensuring food safety, regulatory compliance, productivity, quality, and safety objectives. Responsibilities include staffing, scheduling, reporting, process improvement, employee coaching, performance management, and collaboration with Quality Assurance and other departments. The role requires work in demanding production environments, including extended shifts, noise, temperature variation, wet conditions, and exposure to raw animal odors.

Lead requirements gathering and configure ERP software to meet business needs. Design solutions, document As-Is/To-Be processes, develop and execute unit and user acceptance tests, and deliver end-user training. Create process documentation with Visio/Word/Excel, write SQL queries, and support ERP implementations in a manufacturing environment. Domestic travel ~25% for projects and training.

Leads day-to-day HR operations for plant and complex locations, including staffing, employee relations, training, development, compensation and benefits administration, compliance, performance management, succession planning, and employee engagement. Supervises HR administrative personnel, coaches leaders and employees, manages salaried recruiting and offers in Workday, supports union agreements and grievances, and drives process improvement, diversity, talent, and change initiatives.

Enters and maintains employee transactions in Workday, resolves HR data discrepancies, and supports HRIS inquiries. Compiles HR and operations metrics such as headcount, absenteeism, turnover, and referrals. Oversees employee messaging and unemployment processes, validates I-9 and WOTC documentation, trains managers on Workday, and identifies process improvements while maintaining confidentiality and compliance.

Hang live chickens by their feet onto moving shackles, operate a hydraulic control bar, follow animal welfare and safety policies, wear PPE, and perform physically demanding work in hot, wet, dusty environments. The role requires standing for extended periods, lifting up to 60 pounds, pushing heavy buggies, and working nights, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts.

Disassemble and process poultry on a rotating production line, performing tasks such as deboning and evisceration. Follow company policies, USDA and animal-welfare guidelines, safety procedures, and PPE requirements. The role requires working non-standard shifts in wet, cold, noisy environments with exposure to odors, CO2, and moving equipment, plus occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.

Manages assigned poultry customer accounts, enters and tracks orders, communicates delivery issues, resolves credit and invoice claims, handles complaints, monitors sales and inventory reports, and coordinates with sales, logistics, plant, and operations teams. Maintains customer relationships and satisfaction while managing forecasts, product tracking, shipment documentation, appointments, and export certifications. This individual contributor role requires timely communication, sound judgment, and strong organizational skills.

Leads strategic and day-to-day human resources operations for a complex manufacturing environment. Develops HR policies, advises leadership, oversees staffing, employee relations, compensation, training, compliance, talent management, and succession planning. Supervises HR personnel, mitigates employee and legal risks, analyzes workforce trends, drives process improvements, and partners with corporate HR functions. The role also supports union agreements, grievance resolution, organizational development, and employee career growth.

Leads enterprise marketing, brand, product and category strategy, commercialization, R&D and culinary innovation, market insights, and corporate communications for a large food and protein company. Owns portfolio optimization, profitable growth, brand positioning, marketing budgets, innovation governance, and cross-functional alignment with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance. Develops a multifunctional leadership organization and ensures products are scalable, differentiated, and commercially successful.

Coordinates hourly employee onboarding, orientations, pre-employment tasks, paperwork, data entry, rehire verification, interview scheduling, offer letters, and Workday updates. Provides clerical HR support, greets applicants, answers basic policy questions, administers badges, I-9s, pay cards, and WOTC processes, and supports employee engagement and process improvement. Requires confidentiality, organization, attention to detail, communication skills, and flexibility for non-standard hours.

Hangs live chickens by their feet onto moving shackles, operates a hydraulic bar, follows animal welfare and safety regulations, and uses required PPE. The role requires working independently in hot, wet, dusty environments with live-animal odors, standing for up to eight hours, lifting up to 60 pounds, and performing frequent bending, reaching, kneeling, and crawling. Night, weekend, holiday, and extended-shift availability is required.

Manually slits the necks of poultry missed by automated processing equipment before birds are disassembled into parts. Follows animal welfare, safety, company, and regulatory requirements while working around live production equipment, noise, heat, cold, CO2, blood, and odors. Requires prolonged standing, PPE use, self-motivation, and availability for nights, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts.

Supervises poultry production operations and up to 100 employees while ensuring compliance with food safety, sanitation, OSHA, USDA, and company standards. Manages staffing, production schedules, reporting, process improvements, quality, safety, employee training, performance management, and cross-department coordination. Requires flexibility for extended shifts and work in noisy, wet, hot, cold, dusty, and odor-heavy processing environments.

Supervises poultry production lines and up to 100 employees, ensuring compliance with HACCP, SSOPs, GMPs, USDA, OSHA, safety, quality, and customer requirements. Manages staffing, production schedules, reporting, performance improvement, process optimization, employee training, discipline, and cross-department collaboration. Works in physically demanding, noisy, wet, hot, and cold production environments with variable shifts.

A 12-month early-career leadership program rotating through plant operations, live production, and business functions. Participants learn departmental processes, improve products and services, identify root causes, implement solutions, support frontline leadership, establish goals, and enforce safety standards. The role requires hands-on work in variable environmental conditions, occasional lifting, and flexibility for weekends, holidays, extended, and unusual shifts. Relocation within the company’s geographic footprint is required.

Lead end-to-end payroll operations for approximately 28,000 employees across 25+ locations. Oversee multi-state processing, compliance, reconciliations, tax filings, audits, year-end reporting, systems, controls, and process improvements. Manage and develop payroll teams, resolve complex issues, support implementations and integrations, and partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Technology, and Internal Audit to improve accuracy, scalability, and employee experience.

Administer FMLA, disability, personal leave, and benefits programs while maintaining accurate records in Workday. Serve as a liaison among employees, benefits providers, payroll, HR, corporate benefits, and plant leaders. Resolve enrollment and dependent verification discrepancies, support workers’ compensation claims, coordinate open enrollment communications, educate employees on benefit plans, and identify process improvements. This individual contributor role requires confidentiality, attention to detail, strong communication, and compliance with leave and benefits regulations.