Job Description
Poultry Farm Supervisor: Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in raising poultry, collecting eggs, crating fryers, and maintaining equipment and facilities on poultry farm: Confers with farm manager to ascertain production requirements and to discuss condition of equipment and status of supplies.
Responsibilities
- Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in raising poultry, collecting eggs, crating fryers, and maintaining equipment facilities on poultry farm.
- Confers with farm manager to ascertain production requirements and to discuss condition of equipment status of supplies.
- Assigns workers to duties, like collecting & candling eggs, feeding and vaccinating poultry, crating and shipping fryers and cleaning fumigating chicken houses.
- Directs maintenance and repair of facilities equipment, like chicken houses, automatic feeders, and layer nests.
- Participates in work activities to expedite work load.
- Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption, and poultry mortality reports.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in animal husbandry, agriculture, animal science or equivalent.
- Additional courses in business management or administration are recommended.
- Extensive experience in a farming-related field.
- Management experience would be a plus.
- A passion for agriculture.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
- The ability to make decisions in stressful environments.
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills.
