Animal Welfare Auditor (Southern MN/Northern IA)
Animal Welfare Auditor (Southern MN/Northern IA)
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Job Description
Animal Welfare Auditor
Christensen Farms is one of the largest family-owned pork producers in the United States marketing approximately 3 million hogs per year. Headquartered in Sleepy Eye the company operates throughout the Midwest with facilities in Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Illinois and South Dakota. Christensen Farms owns four feed mills manages 145000 sows on 44 farms and oversees more than 350 nurseries and grow-finish sites. The company employees nearly 1000 people and maintains 1500 contract partnerships.
From Our Manager:
In this role you will 100% ensure the safety and health of our animals and have a huge bottom line impact on the company. You will have an opportunity to develop relationships with many farm operations and leaders.
-Hiring Manager
Position Overview:
This position involves collaborating with production leadership to support farms by ensuring quality controls that uphold CF and regulatory standards. The Animal Welfare Auditor will deliver training to animal caretakers related to animal wellbeing conduct on-farm assessments and audits develop corrective action plans and ensure the resolution of identified non-compliances. Individuals in this role will be expected to cultivate strong working relationships with leaders and caretakers to effectively implement solutions and ensure compliance.
What You Will Do:
- Manage audits in line with biosecurity standards.
- Effectively organize and prioritize tasks take full ownership of scheduling and independently meet deadlines.
- Demonstrate proficiency in adhering to audit standards ensuring compliance with established guidelines and procedures in so doing upholding the integrity and accuracy of audit processes and reports.
- Conduct document and communicate outcome of assessments related to animal wellbeing environmental safety and other critical areas throughout the system.
- Accurately input and manage data into multiple designated systems and promptly communicate findings to relevant stakeholders to ensure corrective actions are taken in a timely manner.
- Conduct CF Annual Certification for both Contract and Employee locations (fulfills PQA Plus requirement.)
- Support farms by providing specialized training as requested/needed regarding animal welfare practices.
- Support departments as needed during external 3rd party audits.
- Identify and effectively communicate areas of opportunity beyond the scope of the audit contributing to continuous systemic enhancement.
What You Offer Us:
- Education: Professional two or four-year degree or equivalent experience.
- Livestock and/or relevant industry experience preferred.
- TQA PQA Plus Advisor Certification preferred.
- PAACO Swine Auditor Certification preferred.
- Bilingual proficiency in Spanish is preferred.
What We Offer You:
- A strong career track with opportunities to grow.
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health dental vision a flexible spending account (FSA) life insurance short-term disability long-term disability a 401(k) plan paid holidays paid time off bank an employee assistance program (EAP) and more.
- Be an active part of an organization that gives back to the community in many ways---including feed programs that support local farms food shelf programs food support for veterans agriculture education and promotion FFA/4H support charitable contributions etc.
- A company that has a passionate purpose for food safety animal welfare and for living its core values every day--respect integrity excellence adaptability and innovation.
- A culture that fosters employee growth hybrid work options promotion from within and a highly team-oriented workplace environment.
Travel Requirements:
Position requires occasional overnight travel to accomplish training and audit requirements for all live animal operations. Additional travel to achieve certification or continuing education may also be required. The estimated overnight travel is 5 nights per month.
Specialized or Motorized Equipment and/or Tools:
This position will require operating a company vehicle or occasional mileage reimbursement. Any employment offer for this position is contingent upon the review of your motor vehicle record (MVR). The MVR will be reviewed to determine insurability based on CFFs insurance carrier and company policy.
Vehicle Licensing Requirements: Class D and proof of insurance
Employment Type
Full-Time
