Job Description
Job Summary
- The Pen house supervisor shall assist the Technical Manager Poultry to ensure that all farm operations are efficiently and effectively managed for optimum result.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Directly supervises the pen attendants to ensure the Pen houses and the surroundings are always clean and hygienic
- Assigns duties to farm attendants and ensures that they are carried out in an efficient manner; duties such as feeding, vaccinating poultry, cleaning and disinfecting /fumigating chicken houses, running of manure belts, shipping eggs or maintaining buildings
- Assist the Poultry technical Manager in maintaining high standard of biosecurity in the Farm
- Assist the Poultry technical Manager in ensuring that vaccination and drugs are correctly administered to avoid and treat avian diseases
- Keeps accurate record and renders timely report on all the activities in the Pen House to the TM- mortality, suspected avian disease symptom, birds condition, feeding, water intake etc
- Cooperates with the TM to ensure that the adequately birds are fed to achieve good body weight for optimum egg production
- Liaises with maintenance team to ensure effective litter and manure disposal
- Leads and ensures that the attendance adhere and comply with the standard operating procedures
- Records data and creates reports on worker attendance, budget, supplies and animal growth.
- Liaises with the maintenance team to ensure the machinery that performs certain tasks, such as egg collection, feeding, water lines are functional
- Training new workers, providing care to injured or ill livestock and enforcing workplace sanitation practices to prevent the spread of disease.
- Participates in work activities to expedite workload.
- Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption, and poultry mortality reports and renders daily report to the Farm Manager.
Requirements
- Qualification: Minimum of BSc / Higher National Diploma in Animal science or Animal production.
- Experience: 2-3 years post-graduation working experience as a Poultry Farm experience.