Production Trainer - 1st Shift

Production Trainer

Shape the future of production excellence by developing and empowering associates to perform at their best. As a Production Trainer, you will lead the onboarding and training of new team members while providing ongoing coaching and development for current associates to ensure production standards, safety expectations, and quality requirements are consistently achieved. You will play a key role in building workforce capability by delivering hands-on training, reinforcing safe work practices, supporting job rotation processes, and promoting food safety compliance. This role is ideal for a motivated and people-focused professional who enjoys teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while contributing to operational performance and continuous improvement.

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Introduce associates to their jobs, including basic training, rotation procedures, and safe work habits.
• Monitor associates' progress and report to supervisor on a daily basis.
• Review performance with associates and advise them of strengths and weaknesses.
• Forward documentation of all evaluation forms to supervisor.
• Reinforce evaluation procedures and clock-in and clock-out procedures.
• Facilitate incorporation of associates into the work team.
• Adhere to all safety requirements, including PPE, preventing and reporting unsafe acts and conditions, Lockout-Tagout procedures, and Process Safety Management related matters.

Minimum Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Completion of "Train-The-Trainer" course.
• Strong reading, communication, math, writing, and analytical skills.

Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors

• Perform tasks for intervals of 48 hours with 13 repetitions per minute.
• Work in temperatures ranging from 3240 degrees Fahrenheit with ambient dampness and wet or moist walking surfaces.
• Experience exposure to chlorinated water (<50 ppm), carbon dioxide vapors (<10 ppm), dry ice (CO2), and lubricating oils.
• Work in noise levels of 8589.9 dB and light intensity of 120 foot candles.
• Use tools such as knives, scissors, sharpening steel, shovel, and hand scoop.
• Wear personal protective equipment including hearing protection, eye protection, chain gloves, rubber gloves, cotton gloves, hard hat, lab coat, and hair net.
• Walk and stand for 48 hours on moist, wet, greasy, smooth, rough, and uneven surfaces, with distances greater than >100 ft.
• Bend for 48 hours with forward angles <45 degrees, backward <2 degrees, and side <10 degrees.
• Twist for 48 hours with forward angles <30 degrees.
• Lift 1020 lbs from floor level to 23 ft, with bending and squatting, at 13 repetitions per minute.
• Reach for 48 hours with forward distances of 1218 inches and side angles <10 degrees.
• Grasp objects (chicken parts, hand tools, containers) using both hands for 5175% of the time.

Perdue Farms Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.