Peco Foods, Inc (Bay Springs)
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THE QUICK READ
Peco Foods runs a chicken processing plant in Bay Springs, Mississippi, where crews handle poultry slaughter and packaging of both whole chickens and chicken parts, moving more than 10 million pounds of product through the facility each month. Peco expanded into Mississippi in 1989 by acquiring and renovating this processing facility and building new live production infrastructure, including a feed mill, in the area. Bay Springs is the western county seat of Jasper County in south-central Mississippi, a small city of about 1,700 people where the railroad came through in the early 1900s, located roughly 70 miles southeast of Jackson.
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PAY PICTURE
Ammonia / Industrial Refrigeration Tech
- Government data for Mississippi
- $22.47–$33.57/hr
- What techs ask, adjusted for Mississippi
- $27.35–$37.79/hr
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · 775 techs in our network nationwide, scaled to Mississippi pay levels
Industrial Maintenance Tech
- Government data for Mississippi
- $20.82–$32.19/hr
- What techs ask, adjusted for Mississippi
- $26–$35.64/hr
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · 278 techs in our network nationwide, scaled to Mississippi pay levels
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, poultry, processing, slaughter
- Size
- Large
- Ammonia on site
- 74,711 lbs (per EPA RMP filings)
On file · Sep 2026
SAFETY RECORD
EPA RMP · Sep 2026From public EPA records, as of September 4, 2026. Reported as filed — we add no opinions or grades.
LIVING IN BAY SPRINGS, MS
NEARBY PLANTS HIRING
Data updated: Sep 2026| FACILITY | LOCATION | DISTANCE | OPEN JOBS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyson Foods | Forest, MS | 27 mi | 10 JOBS → |
| Peco Foods INC. | Sebastopol, MS | 37 mi | 2 JOBS → |
| Lineage Logistics | Richland, MS | 54 mi | 1 JOB → |
| Tyson Foods | Carthage, MS | 58 mi | 2 JOBS → |
| Tyson Foods | Vicksburg, MS | 84 mi | 2 JOBS → |
| Foster Poultry Farms | Demopolis, AL | 91 mi | 4 JOBS → |
| Peco Foods INC. | West Point, MS | 115 mi | 5 JOBS → |
| Peco Foods INC. | Tuscaloosa, AL | 129 mi | 3 JOBS → |
ABOUT PECO FOODS INC.
Peco Foods began in 1937 when John Herman Hickman started a hatchery in Gordo, Alabama; his family merged with Harris Poultry and Egg Co. in 1968 to form the Peco brand. Based in Tuscaloosa, the company grew into an integrated poultry processor and expanded into Arkansas in 2011, adding plants in Pocahontas and Corning by 2016. Peco now operates 12 locations across Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi with more than 7,500 employees, ranking as the seventh-largest poultry producer in the United States. It remains privately held under the fourth generation of the Hickman family.
Other Peco Foods INC. plants in our directory: Sebastopol, Peco Foods, Inc (West Point), Feather Lane, Fulton Street, Peco Foods, Inc., Peco Foods, Inc., Peco Foods, Inc. (Pocahontas)
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