Job Description
Principle Responsibilities:
- Support the Farm Manager with supervision and training of hourly employees
- Effectively communicate expectations and job responsibilities to farm staff
- Be willing and able to perform all jobs associated with sow production
- Develop daily and weekly work schedules
- Coordinating the activity of department lead personnel
- Monitor the appearance of buildings and grounds are neat, clean and orderly at all times.
- Oversee implementation and maintenance of breeding programs in accordance with the company’s breeding processes and procedures.
- Oversee performance of regular breeder checks to determine status of new litters and breeder productivity, ensuring that the breeding colonies are producing appropriately to include animal numbers and adequate litters.
- Manage animal nutrition, including feeding and watering animals, and cleaning and disinfecting pens, enclosures, and yards.
- Direct examination animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury. Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.
- Supervise injection of vaccines.
- Direct the selection of animals to be bred and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
- Ensure accurate recording of animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets.
- Direct packaging and labeling of semen to be used for artificial insemination, ensuring recording of information is accurate.
- Oversee preparation of containers of semen and storage or shipment.
- Inspect maintenance of logs of semen specimens used and animals bred.
- Oversee measurement of specified amounts of semen into calibrated syringes.
- Supervise injection of prepared animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes.
- Direct adjustment of controls to maintain specific building temperatures required for animals' health and safety.
- Examine semen microscopically to assess and record density and motility of gametes, and dilute semen with prescribed diluents, according to formulas.
- Oversee, tattooing or tagging of animals to allow animal identification.
Required Qualifications:
• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience
• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years complete sow production experience
- Strong communication and listening skill
- Understanding of computer systems
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems and make decisions independently
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead a team
- Be a team oriented, self-motivated and positive individual with strong work ethic
- Ability to efficiently multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with Bio-Security and swine production
- Proven safety track and awareness
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bi-lingual English/Spanish
Travel: Occasional travel required
The applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:
- Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
- Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays.
- 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule.
This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled.
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct a drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us: JBS USA is a leading global provider of diversified, high-quality food products, including a portfolio of well-recognized brands and innovative, easy-to-use food solutions. We process, prepare, package and deliver fresh and value-added premium meat, poultry and retail-ready food products for customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents. We are also the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, the largest poultry company in North America. JBS USA employs more than 100,000 team members, and our corporate office is located in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, where our 1,200 team members onsite enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
EOE, including disability/vets
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Las Animas, CO |
| Industry | Manufacturing - Other |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
About Company
Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Our corporate headquarters is in Greeley, Colorado. We employ approximately 38,000 people and have the capacity to process more than 36 million birds per week for a total of more than 9.5 billion pounds of live chicken annually.Pilgrim's products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company's primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico. We currently operate in 12 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. These states include Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Pilgrim's Pride is a part of the JBS USA family. JBS S.A., the world's largest protein company, owns 75.5% of our outstanding common stock. Click here for more information on the JBS family of proteins.
Skills
- Animal Breedingunmatched
- Animal Careunmatched
- Animal Nutritionunmatched
- Awareness Trackingunmatched
- Background Investigationunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Dietary Managementunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Farm Managementunmatched
- Injectionsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Microscopic Analysisunmatched
- Multilingualunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Property Maintenanceunmatched
- Retailunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Spanish Languageunmatched
- Staff Trainingunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Vaccinationunmatched
- Veterinary Medicineunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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