GENERAL PURPOSE
Oversee all daily aspects of swine sow unit, but not limited to, maintaining breeding/farrowing targets, daily AI, semen inventory and delivery, individual sow and piglet care, feeding, weekly farrowing, heard health and vaccination program, nutrition, isolation and acclimation of replacement gilts, staff development and record keeping.
Duties Include:
- Administration
- Assist Sow Service Manager with farm budgets and department budgets
- Submit weekly wean pig projection to Sow Service Manager
- Submit weekly accurate farm records to Production Records department
- Manage and maintain farm production records
- Monitor department environmental controls
- Monitor pit status and coordinate timely removal of nutrients with farm owners
- Manage and performs dead pig removal
- Manage and maintain whole farm bio-security standards
- Manage feed ordering and delivery
- Monitor and order medication, semen and supplies for all departments
- Routinely check and repair facilities and equipment
- Monitor working condition of back-up generator
- Manage and evaluate all farm employees and perform evaluations with Department Managers
- Monitor health issues and report to Company Veterinarian
- Daily Chores
- Oversee all daily feeding of animals and chores, including checking waters, sow conditions, building and environment.
- Monitor whole herd health
- Monitor semen delivery, inventory and expiration date of semen
- Determine cull sows and transportation
- Maintain unit cleanliness
- Breeding Department
- Perform daily heat checks on sows and gilts
- Perform daily AI on sows and gilts
- Manage gilt inventory and gilt flow
- Monitor 21 and 42 day heat checks and 50 day pregnancy checks
- Coordinate with Farrowing Department Head Pre-farrow and post-farrow sow movements
- Assist farrowing department personnel on weaning days
- Guilt Development & Isolation Facilities
- Maintain department vaccination schedule
- Monitor department health status
- Maintain isolation/acclimation of gilts
- Organize gilt scheduling, delivery and movements
- Implement best gilt management practices (i.e. gilt breeding age and feed regiment)
- Farrowing Department
- Coordinate with Breeding Department Head pre-farrow and post-farrow sow movements
- Schedule piglet processing, vaccination and weaning
- Ensure that genetic identification takes place at birth (tagging and notching)
- Ensure accurate count of piglets being weaned to nurseries
- Provide 3 week wean pig projections to Sow Service Manager
- Piglet Development
- Schedule and perform daily piglet processing, including iron shots, tail clipping, and castration
- Mange piglet cross fostering
- Schedule and perform daily piglet weaning and vaccination
- Manage and monitor quality control of piglets to be weaned
- Manage non-select wean piglet move out and transportation
- Employee Administration
- Train all staff on NFP Policies & Procedures
- Instruct staff on all production record keeping
- Teach staff to work as a team and lead by example
- Assist other team members with time management and production skill development
- Meet regularly with employees for production discussion and problem solving
- Ensure that each employee understands the expectations and performance requirements for his/her job
- Business Management
- Participate weekly in sow farm manager conference call
- Monthly analysis and explanation of variance on profit and loss statements
- Attend Quarterly Production meetings
- Other Duties
- Attend other staff meetings and training meetings as scheduled
- Follow all safety rules and practice and encourage team to do the same
- Follow all applicable bio-security measures per NFP policies
- Regular, consistent attendance
- Any and all other tasks and responsibilities as may be required