Farm Lead

Aviagen•Walpole, NH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead assists the Manager in producing high-quality Pedigree and GGP hatching eggs. This role ensures the maintenance of buildings and equipment to standard and oversees compliance with Human Resources, Animal Welfare, Safety, Workers Comp, Quality Assurance, and Biosecurity programs and policies by all individuals. The position involves supervising farm employees, monitoring poultry health, and taking immediate steps to prevent and treat diseases. The Lead will gain familiarity with Rotem controllers and ventilation systems, adjusting them according to poultry age and management instructions. They will assist in implementing poultry practices as outlined in Farm SOPs and other communications, ensuring all possible controls are in place to preserve the purity and security of bloodlines. The role is responsible for ensuring farm equipment is properly maintained, implementing power and emergency procedures, and meeting housing schedules through proper cleaning, disinfecting, and setup for placements. The Lead will maintain farm premises, buildings, and equipment in a clean, safe, and orderly manner, monitoring and troubleshooting issues with feed lines, drinkers, fans, barns, litter quality, etc. They will also assist with work schedule development and complete and maintain supplies for bird services such as tabbing, beak and toe trimming, and wound care, independently or while leading a team. Data entry for the farm is a key responsibility, as is assisting in the oversight of new crew member training. The Lead will complete and oversee weekly and monthly test sampling, including water, litter, dust, and poultry blood samples, and complete all submission forms. They will perform any and all functions as assigned by Farm Manager or Production Team Management with no unreported issues.

Requirements

Full-time Hubbard LLC employee with one year of poultry experience or equivalent higher education is required.
Basic English language proficiency is required.
Ability to understand oral and written instructions, and perform high-level tasks under direct instruction of the Farm Supervisor or Production Team.
High school graduate level proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Ability to trouble-shoot of farm equipment.
Ability to communicate effectively with both lower and higher ranked individuals.
Ability to lead the farm in the event of Farm Manager absence.
Must be a detail-oriented, self-motivator with ability to perform tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
Must have or be able to learn basic proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States of America.
Must successfully pass a background check and drug-screen prior to employment.
Must be legally authorized to operate a motor vehicle in New Hampshire.

Nice To Haves

English/Spanish bilingual is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist the Manager in producing high quality Pedigree and GGP hatching eggs.
Ensure maintenance of buildings and equipment are kept up to standard.
Ensure compliance of the Human Resources, Animal Welfare, Safety, Workers Comp, Quality Assurance and Biosecurity programs and policies by all individuals.
Assists with the supervision of activities of the farm employees as required.
Monitors poultry health and takes proper and immediate steps to prevent and treat diseases.
Gain familiarity with Rotem controller and ventilation systems and adjust ventilation and heat in accordance to age of poultry and manger’s instructions.
Assists the supervisor with implementation of poultry practices as outlined in Farm SOP and other communications.
Ensure all possible controls are in place to preserve and protect the purity and security of our bloodlines from possible contamination and/ or theft.
Assures that farm equipment is properly maintained.
Implements power and emergency procedures when needed.
Meets required housing schedules by providing proper cleaning, disinfecting and set up for placements.
Maintains the farm premises, buildings, and equipment in a clean, safe and orderly manner at all times which includes monitoring and troubleshooting issues with feed lines, drinkers, fans, barns, appearance, litter quality, etc…
Assists with work schedule development.
Complete and maintain supplies for bird services such as tabbing, beak and toe trimming, and wound care independently or while leading a team.
Responsible for all farm data entry.
Assist in the oversight of proper training of new members of the crew.
Complete and Oversee weekly & monthly test sampling, including but not limited to: water samples, litter and dust samples, poultry blood samples, tissue samples, and completing all submission forms in their entirety.
Follow established guidelines in regards to directing hourly employees (without disciplinary oversight).
Performs any and all functions as assigned by Farm Manager or Production Team Management with no unreported issues.