About the role
Now Hiring: Chicken Processor
📍 Location: Los Angeles, CA 90033
🕑 Shift: Monday–Friday, 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM
💵 Pay Rate: $19 per hour
Are you ready to join a hardworking team that helps feed families across the region? We’re looking for dedicated individuals to join our production team as Chicken Processors! If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, care about quality and safety, and take pride in a job well done, this could be the opportunity for you!
🐔 What You’ll Do
As a Chicken Processor, you’ll play a key role in producing high-quality poultry products. Your responsibilities will include:
- Performing hands-on tasks such as sorting, cutting, deboning, trimming, and packaging chicken products.
- Following safety and quality procedures to ensure compliance with all food handling regulations.
- Keeping your work area clean, sanitized, and safe.
- Operating equipment and tools properly and safely.
- Inspecting products for quality and removing items that don’t meet standards.
- Monitoring machinery and reporting any issues right away.
- Labeling and packaging products according to company specifications.
- Working with USDA and HACCP guidelines to ensure compliance with state and federal poultry regulations.
- Participating in training sessions to stay current with industry best practices.
- Supporting your team to meet daily production goals.
This position does not include supervisory responsibilities.
🎓 Education
- High school diploma preferred, but not required.
🧠 What We’re Looking For
- Ability to stand for long periods and perform repetitive tasks.
- Comfortable working in cold environments (25–50°F).
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow safety and food-handling protocols.
- Physically capable of lifting up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 100 lbs. occasionally.
- Team player with solid communication skills.
- Willingness to learn and follow USDA inspection requirements.
🛠 Physical Demands & Work Environment
- Regularly stand, walk, bend, lift, reach, push/pull.
- May be exposed to feathers, dust, cold temps, and cleaning chemicals.
- Required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including gloves, safety glasses, steel-toe boots, etc.
- May handle food products that contain allergens.
R.W. Zant is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and will not permit discrimination against or harassment of any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status, genetic information, or on the basis of any personal characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.
California applicants can view the CCPA Notice here.