ConAgra Brands, Inc. (Fort Madison)
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THE QUICK READ
ConAgra Brands runs a meat and poultry processing plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, carrying both meat and poultry USDA establishment designations. Workers there process chicken into ready-to-eat and not-ready-to-eat product lines. At roughly 500 employees, it's a sizeable single-site workforce for a food-processing plant in Iowa.
JOBS HERE
PAY PICTURE
Ammonia / Industrial Refrigeration Tech
- Government data for Iowa
- $26.12–$37.26/hr
- What techs ask in Iowa
- $31.50–$37.87/hr
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · 6 techs in our network, Iowa
Industrial Maintenance Tech
- Government data for Iowa
- $24.71–$33.78/hr
- What techs ask, adjusted for Iowa
- $29.22–$40.05/hr
- Posted pay near this plant
- $24.97–$33.26/hr
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · 278 techs in our network nationwide, scaled to Iowa pay levels · 5 postings
Area pay for these roles, not this plant’s pay. Rows we cannot back with data are left out.
ABOUT THIS FACILITY
- Reported employees
- ~500
- Products
- chicken, not-ready-to-eat, processing, ready-to-eat
- Size
- Large
- Ammonia on site
- 20,000 lbs (per EPA RMP filings)
On file · Sep 2026
SAFETY RECORD
EPA RMP · Sep 2026From public EPA records, as of September 3, 2026. Reported as filed — we add no opinions or grades.
LIVING IN FORT MADISON, IA
NEARBY PLANTS HIRING
Data updated: Sep 2026| FACILITY | LOCATION | DISTANCE | OPEN JOBS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archer Daniels Midland Company | Quincy, IL | 47 mi | 2 JOBS → |
| Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. | Monmouth, IL | 48 mi | 6 JOBS → |
| General Mills | Hannibal, MO | 62 mi | 4 JOBS → |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Kirksville, MO | 65 mi | 1 JOB → |
| Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. | Milan, MO | 92 mi | 10 JOBS → |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Columbia, MO | 117 mi | 1 JOB → |
| Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc. | Toluca, IL | 124 mi | 3 JOBS → |
| Conagra Brands | Marshall, MO | 137 mi | 5 JOBS → |
ABOUT CONAGRA BRANDS
Conagra Brands began in 1919 as Nebraska Consolidated Mills, a grain-milling company founded by Alva Kinney in Nebraska. It became ConAgra in 1971, then ConAgra Foods in 2000, and took its current name in 2016 when it moved headquarters to Chicago. It grew through acquisitions including Banquet, Armour, Beatrice Foods, Marie Callender's, Ralcorp, and Pinnacle Foods, the last of which added Birds Eye in 2018. Its brands now include Hunt's, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, and Orville Redenbacher's, made across about 38 plants in the United States. Conagra trades on the NYSE as CAG, reporting about $11.6 billion in revenue and roughly 18,300 employees for fiscal 2025.
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