Role Purpose:
- To assist the Farmer/Site Supervisor in managing the operations, resources and manpower of a site thereby ensuring the optimal number of the right quality birds at the right time and at the lowest cost. To take full responsibility of the site when the Farmer /Site Supervisor is not on site
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum Grade 12; Tertiary qualification will be an advantage
- Physically fit with no allergies to bird feathers and dust
Required Experience:
- 3 years’ experience in the Poultry environment with 1 year experience/exposure in a supervisory capacity
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge:
- Understand basic poultry nutrition, growth, anatomy and reproduction
- Farm operations and processes
- Ability to recognize ventilation, brooding, feeding and water requirements of the birds and make the correct adjustments
- Operation of farm equipment
- FAWLT principles for optimal performance
- Skills:
- Verbal and written communication
- Interpersonal
- Numeracy
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Stockman ship
Key Responsibilities
- House Preparation prior to placement in order to create ideal conditions for bird production.
Chick Placement
- Co –ordinate and monitor staff, liases with the hatchery, chick placing foremen,
Post placement of chicks (Brooding conditions)
- Evaluation of chick quality, recording of vent temperatures, temperature setting,
Growing conditions
- Daily monitoring of the bird performance which entails feed intake, water recordings, temp and humidity recordings, mortality recordings
Ventilation management
- Adjust ventilation static pressure to achieve minimum and maximum bird requirement.
Water Management
- Water sampling prior to placement, flushing of the water lines three times in a week, sanitation of house water reticulation, daily water pressure setting and nipple heights
Feed management
- Receiving and Recording of feed deliveries relative to feed programme; daily bin stock counts; management of feed heights; adjustment of feeder levels according to bird’s size; monitoring of feed quality(% of fine feed); sampling of feed when the truck arrives.
Outsource activities
- Preparation of the house environment prior to catching commencing; all documentation relative to catching need to check accuracy with the broiler planner; good communication and planning with the catching team and logistics to minimize any holding time.
Hygiene and Biosecurity
- Adhere to the VCM and BOP procedures
- Ensure compliance to SHEQ and Risk Management
- Training of staff with regards to animal welfare, food safety, equipment within the operation and Bio-security procedures.
- Maintaining an effective biosecurity programme by practicing good hygiene, vaccination and disease prevention.
Bird Health
- Daily monitoring and activity of birds, and sending of post mortems to the laboratory as per VCD;
Record Keeping
- Keep the documentation files updated that is KFC, health and safety files; feed recording; house chart records; rodent control, mortality records,
Staff management
- Keep and update daily registers, mdwt’s, disciplinary records, training records; review meetings.
Maintenance
- Test equipment and the standby generator on a weekly basis to ensure reliability and good working order.
- Test the alarms in the morning and afternoon, on a daily basis to ensure good working order.
- Maintain the farm grounds.
General Production
- Ensure the submission of samples to the laboratory (blood, water, dust, mortality and feed) as required by best operating
- Monitor and record environmental conditions of poultry houses
- practices to enable proactive management of potential animal health issues.
- Manage the vaccination process to ensure immunizations and vaccinations are done in time and according to the vaccination program, BOP and veterinary specifications.
- Ensure that effective rodent control measures are in place.
Closing Date: 15 May 2024