Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, but operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Pay Range from $80,000 to $100,000 plus eligible for 10% target bonus.

We offer our TEAM Members the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurance for themselves and their eligible dependents.
• Voluntary benefits such as Group Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Group Accident Coverage, Group Critical Illness Coverage, Individual Short-Term Disability Insurance, and Whole Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care FSA and Dependent Daycare FSA).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• College tuition reimbursement (100% tuition, 80% books, and 100% parking).
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a Company-contribution of up to 4%.
• Vacation, sick, holiday, funeral, and jury duty pay

Job Functions

• Direct and supervise shift maintenance for all refrigeration, electrical, boiler and waste water treatment facilities at Kelso plant.
• Prepare work schedules and mechanic duty assignments as required to support the total maintenance program and the requirements of PSM/RMP, Cal/ARP, Production and USDA personnel.
• Perform frequent on-the-job inspections to ensure employee safe working habits, safe work areas, high quality workmanship and effectiveness of maintenance and repairs.
• Evaluate, prioritize and schedule maintenance repair requests to ensure timely completion of all repair actions.
• Accurately estimate materials and manpower costs for job orders and project requests.
• Routinely inspect equipment for needed repairs and maintenance. Prepare maintenance repair requests.
• Proved technical assistance to assigned personnel in the following areas: proper operation of equipment, proper use of maintenance manuals/schematics, efficient troubleshooting and proper maintenance/repair of equipment.
• Coordinate the site-specific training and implementation of emergency response teams within Foster Farms and with local Hazardous Materials Responders.
• Coordinates with project engineers in the technical design review of new projects and equipment to ensure appropriate controls are in place as it pertains to PSM or RMP regulated chemicals.
• Leads Incident Investigations that involve PSM or RMP listed chemicals and processes, performs root cause analysis/PHA’s, and helps develop action plans that will prevent recurrences.
• Continue to develop, update, and maintain corporate PSM and RMP programs that comply with changing federal, state, and local regulations.

• Engineering or BA Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years experience in ammonia refrigeration including mechanical integrity functions and SOP development.
• RETA CIRO certification.
• Strong oral and written communications skills and the ability to work in both individual and team work settings with minimum supervision.
• 3-5 years maintenance supervisory experience, in a production environment.
• Project management, project development skills and experience.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.