Assistant Ranch Foreperson - Dwelling - Healy 3
About The Position
This role involves contributing to and assisting the Ranch Manager in overseeing all ranch activities and functions of assigned fryers and fryer ranches. The Assistant Ranch Foreperson will direct the grow-out of fryers by managing ranch setup, brooding, temperatures, ventilation, mortality, vaccinations, and medications to ensure the highest quality conditions. This includes maintaining ranch facilities, enforcing strict sanitation procedures, and monitoring bird health, reporting any abnormalities to management. The position requires responsible emergency response, managing production costs, maintaining accurate records, and providing training to ranch personnel. Adherence to company safety, animal welfare, and disease prevention guidelines is essential. Regular contact with various personnel including feed mill dispatchers, drivers, maintenance, other ranches, and field supervision is expected.
Requirements
- Must have completed the Chicken Grow Out Training Program.
- Must be self-motivated and able to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
- Must possess supervisory and leadership skills.
- Must have good mathematical and organizational skills.
- Must have good written and verbal communication skills (Basic English).
- Must be able to move and lift 50 pounds.
- Must be willing and able to respond as necessary to alarms and adverse conditions affecting the chickens.
- Must be able to work as scheduled/needed to include overtime, evenings, holidays and weekends.
- Must be able to follow and enforce company standards, guidelines and policies on anyone working on his/her ranch complex.
- Must have the ability to work at other ranches/complexes as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Preferably, will have a mechanical aptitude.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and assist the Ranch Manager to oversee all ranch activities and functions of assigned fryers and fryer ranch.
- Direct the grow out of fryers through the setup of the ranch, brooding, temperatures, ventilation, mortality, vaccinations, medications, so that conditions are maintained to meet the highest possible level of quality.
- Maintain the ranch facilities, to include appearance, arranging with the maintenance department, needed materials and service calls.
- Follow and enforce strict sanitation procedures being constantly aware of the bird's health; report any abnormalities to the Manager or Field Supervisor.
- React responsibly to emergencies that could adversely affect the chickens, day or night.
- Assist Ranch Manager to manage and control all ranch production costs, to include all labor, fuel, supply, utility, medication, and ranch maintenance costs.
- Maintain accurate and complete records pertaining to all ranch activities, (i.e., feed, mortality, fuel, production, and energy consumption).
- Assist Ranch Manager to provide proper training and delegation of duties to all ranch personnel.
- Adhere to and enforce company safety, animal welfare and disease prevention guidelines.
- Have contact with the feed mill dispatchers, feed mill drivers, and maintenance repair personnel, personnel from other ranches and field supervision.
Benefits
- Additional $1.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:00pm and 11:59pm.
- Additional $2.00 per hour for hours worked between 12:00am-4:59am.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
