Job Description
Job Description & Responsibilities
Management Role:
- Responsible for overseeing the entire poultry operations.
- Direct the planning and managing of farm operations and handle farm business administration and marketing.
- Plan, develop, and implements policies, procedures, and practices for operation of the Poultry farm to ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Directs and coordinates, farm activities, for example feeding and production of chicks and eggs and growth of broiler.
- Plan, coordinate, and direct various activities within production to achieve the set targets.
- Manage farm financing, including negotiating loans, establishing relationships with purchasers.
- Purchase needed farm equipment and supplies and consumables
- maintaining and monitoring daily and weekly production records and presenting monthly performance reports to executive management.
- Oversee routine production planning and execution of periodical, preventive and breakdown maintenance of machinery such as Boilers, Pellet Press, etc
- Submit innovative ideas to the top management for the continuous growth of the organization.
Health & Environment:
- Plan and manage safety and hygiene in factory premises.
- Ensure all organic Poultry sanitation procedures are followed, to include the use of good quality of chick and broiler chicken.
- Sterilizing and maintaining facilities and equipment and ensure disease prevention for good bird health.
- Ensure standard ventilation guidelines for environmental closed houses in extreme whether condition.
Operations:
- Maintain high quality, healthy Poultry herds. Identify and respond to health, environmental and nutritional requirements of poultry Industry.
- Handled routine Breeder, Broiler, Layer flock health maintenance program & established guidelines for Good Health Management, encompassing vaccination, medication, Disinfection & Bio-security program.
- Ensure that birds are growing regularly using consistent techniques.
- Supervising and following up on different types of vaccines methods like: vaccinating with spraying, drinking water, subcutaneous & intramuscular injection & its laboratory tests.
- Maintained a high standard of poultry husbandry like Chick/Egg management, Growth Management, Ventilation, pre-processing management and nutrition.
- Ensuring company guidelines & production standards pertaining to, Sanitation & disinfection of hatchery, broiler houses, layer & breeding farm.
Qualification
- First Degree in Social Sciences or Business Management Discipline.
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years progressive experience in Poultry Farm Management.
Requirements:
- Effective people management skills
- Knowledge of Environmental management.
- Knowledge of different breeds of chicken and fowl.
- Skilled in maintaining the health and hygiene of the birds.
- Knowledge of optimum bird and fowl nutrition
- Efficient in maintaining safety standards and cleanliness at the farm
- Knowledge of pest and disease control.
- Knowledge of the latest technological advancements in poultry management.
Skills and Competencies:
- People Management skill
- Result-oriented
- Self-motivated
- Leadership qualities
- Good communication skills.
Salary
N70,000 - N1,000,000 monthly.