Production Team Lead-Ark River

Description

• Adhere to and monitor team members during production activities to ensure adherence safety Animal Welfare and Bio-Security procedures
• Motivate team members to increase production and maintain high production standards
• Serve as liaison between team members and management
• Evaluate and implement continuous improvement of swine production process
• Ability to perform necropsy and collection of tissue sample including PUC sampling
• Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury
• Treat minor injuries and ailments
• Communicate with appropriate management and/or veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries

• Stock supplies of feed and medicines
• Ability to understand and implement advanced sow/gilt care and handling (feeding/watering/moving/ventilation)
• Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus if necessary
• Understanding and ability to conduct advanced breeding functions (artificial insemination heat check day-one pig care)
• Select animals to be bred and semen specimens to be used according to knowledge of animals genealogies traits and desired offspring characteristics
• Record animal characteristics such as weights growth patterns and diets
• Brand tattoo or tag animals for animal identification
• Place vaccines in drinking water inject vaccines or dust air with vaccine powder to protect animals from diseases
• Exercise animals to keep them in healthy condition
• Adjust controls to maintain specific building temperatures required for animals health and safety
• Maintain logs of semen specimens used and animals bred
• Inject prepared animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes by inserting nozzle of syringe into vagina and depressing syringe plunger
• Prepare containers of semen for freezing and storage or shipment placing them in dry ice or liquid nitrogen
• Package and label semen to be used for artificial insemination recording information such as the date source quality and concentration

• Experience with or ability to learn farm technology (hand held devices/wand sows and other equipment as necessary)
• Attend safety meetings
• Cleaning and disinfection of facilities including removal of mortality and waste
• Check feed system and fill lines
• Production/facility housekeeping duties
• Any other tasks assigned by Assistant or Manager

• 4-year college degree in related field or equivalent experience in similar production environment
• Strong communication and listening skills
• Experience with or ability to learn farm technology (computers hand held devices/wand sows and other equipment as necessary)
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and make decisions independently
• Ability to effectively lead a team
• Be a team oriented self-motivated and positive individual with strong work ethic
• Ability to efficiently multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with Bio-Security and swine production
• Ability to work weekend as scheduled
• Ability to continually bend push grasp and pull up to 60 lbs
• Continual walking and/or standing up to 95% of the day
• Reliable method of transportation required
• Ability to work early 1^st shift hours or late 2^nd shift hours

• Bilingual English and Spanish