Farrowing Manager
Full time @Suidae Health and Production posted 1 month ago in Management , in Production Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 38280
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Experience Previous experience required
Job Description
Suidae Health and Production is currently looking to fill a Farrowing Manager position at their 5,000 head sow farm near Lakota, ND. Benefits include Health, Vision and Dental, Matching Simple IRA and a Production Bonus.
Objective:
Supervise functions associated with the farrowing performance of farm and collaborate with Farm Manager to meet herd’s productivity and cost of production objectives.
Personnel Responsibilities:
- Supporting Farm Manager, Farm Owner’s and Management Company decisions, policies and leadership being provided to all farm personnel.
- Collaborate with Farm Manager and Breeding Manager concerning scheduling and organization of daily personnel activities.
- Supervise and perform production tasks required in farrowing barn.
- Assist in evaluating farm personnel.
- Training farm personnel how to successfully perform all tasks involved with farrowing barn management.
Production Responsibilities:
- Daily care of sows and piglets
- Optimization of the number of pigs born alive per sow farrowed
- Timely checking and assisting of sows farrowing
- Ensuring sows are loaded into farrowing far enough in advance of their due date
- Maximizing piglet livability
- Ensuring adequate clostrom intake before piglets are moved
- Timely doing a first sort of new litters to meet sow teat capacity and rearing capabilities
- Timely pulling fall behind pigs to nurse litters
- Providing proper environment for sows and piglets
- Computer controllers set accurately and consistently
- Air inlets adjusted accordingly
- Heat lamps adjusted according to pig comfort
- Pit plugs pulled timely and pit’s recharged to minimize pit gases and odor
- Ensures rooms are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected between groups
- Optimize pig quality at weaning
- Maximize wean weight
- Maximize wean age
- Timely intervene with pigs of substandard quality
- Maximize sow feed intake
- Ensure fresh feed is available and spoiled feed is dumped out daily
- Get sows up at each feeding unless farrowing pigs
- Feed sows to intake capacity
- Ensure adequate water flow is available to sow
- Follow herd health and bio-security protocols
- Vaccination protocols timely performed
- Sow and piglet treatments done on a timely basis
- Piglet processing
- Tails are properly docked
- Male pigs are timely castrated
- Ear tattooing accurately completed
- Ensure proper animal husbandry of all animals in farrowing
- Timely euthanize suffering animals
- Remove dead animals to compost area timely
- Ensure that farm personnel move and handle animals properly
- Sending a sow to the breeding barn that is in good condition that should re-bred timely
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Facility Responsibilities:
- Timely perform routine building and equipment maintenance
- Address issues that may cause an un-safe working environment
- Report break downs needing outside contractor assistance to Farm Manager when identified
- Ensure that work area is kept picked up, clean, neat and orderly
- Assist in keeping office, supply rooms, generator room and storage areas clean and orderly
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Administrative Responsibilities:
- Ensure sow cards are timely and accurately completed
- Daily complete production summary reports
- Submit production reports to office on expected schedule
- Ensure sow tag number and sow card information reconciles
- Collaborate with Farm Manager on weaning scheduling and pig flow projections
- Managing supply inventory
- Ensuring an adequate inventory of products are available on farm
- Collaborate with Farm Manager to ensure cost control of supplies being purchased
- Collaborate with Farm Manager to order feed
Other Responsibilities:
- Be willing to respond to and adequately handle emergency alarm calls
- Perform miscellaneous tasks as directed by Farm Manager
- Be willing to acquire skills as needed to perform technological advancements
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