Maintenance Lead - Various Shifts

Pilgrim's Pride Corp

Sumter, SC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Communication Skills, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Forklift, Lift/Move 50 Pounds, Maintenance Services, Pallet Jack, Preventative Maintenance, Quality Assurance, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
LOCATION
Sumter, SC
POSTED
18 days ago

Maintenance Lead - Various Shifts

Location: Sumter, SC, United States

Date Posted: Jun 16, 2026

Category: Maintenance

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Maintenance Lead

GENERAL SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for industrial maintenance duties for an assigned area of the processing plant.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Maintains assigned equipment and follows preventive maintenance schedule assigned by Maintenance Manager
  • Performs demand maintenance repairs and adjustments in assigned operations area
  • Makes necessary adjustments, calibrations and/or decisions to ensure proper operation of equipment
  • Ensures all subordinate employees complete preventive maintenance assignments as required
  • Trains, delegates work to, assists and keeps track of subordinate employees and their equipment
  • Completes other tasks as assigned by Maintenance Supervisor

EDUCATION: High school degree or equivalent (GED) required

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 2 year directly related experience
  • Must have skills to perform maintenance on all equipment in the assigned processing area
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work well with production, QA and USDA
  • Ability to lift over 50 pounds

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATION: Lock Out / Tag Out and Pallet Jack and Fork Lift Certification or willingness to obtain

EOE, including disability/vets

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Pilgrim's Pride Corp

Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Our corporate headquarters is in Greeley, Colorado. We employ approximately 38,000 people and have the capacity to process more than 36 million birds per week for a total of more than 9.5 billion pounds of live chicken annually.Pilgrim's products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company's primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico. We currently operate in 12 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. These states include Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Pilgrim's Pride is a part of the JBS USA family. JBS S.A., the world's largest protein company, owns 75.5% of our outstanding common stock. Click here for more information on the JBS family of proteins.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing - Other
FOUNDED
2009