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About the position
Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our values Team Members will shine through in everything we do. Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team. We offer the experience of a large organization; however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage Team Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.
Responsibilities
- Learn all the functions of the Ranch Manager and the Assistant Ranch Manager as they relate to day-to-day fryer ranch duties.
- Assist with the grow out program to maintain ranch setup, brooding, temperatures, ventilation, mortality, vaccination, and medication.
- Assist with the maintenance of the facilities and equipment for optimal use and appearance.
- Assist the Foreperson with feed projections, coordination with feed mills of feed deliveries, maintenance of accurate feed inventories and proper feeding methods.
- Maintain accurate and complete records pertaining to all ranch activities, feed, mortality, labor, production, and energy consumption.
- React to any ranch emergency that could adversely affect the chickens, day or night.
- Take full responsibility for the ranch facility and the birds in the absence of the Foreperson.
- Maintain a high level of safety awareness and adhere to and enforce all safety rules, procedures and guidelines.
- Adhere to strict sanitation and disease prevention guidelines; assist in constant monitoring of bird health, reporting any/all abnormalities.
Requirements
- Must have poultry-raising experience.
- Must have a mechanical aptitude.
- Must be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
- Must have good mathematical and organizational skills.
- Must be able to move 25 pounds.
- Must follow biosecurity, animal welfare, and company policy.
