2600 head - sow farm 

 

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Depending on the experience minimum payment $14.00 per hour. Pay can vary depending on chosen benefits package.

Schedule: 8-9 hour shift

 

Benefits:

 

• Housing and Utilities: Housing provided for the duration of employment will be provided. This includes utilities.

• Transportation: To/from work and a weekly trip to local grocery store for up to three months. We encourage you to obtain your own transportation. Transportation other than that would be billed to our IRS mileage rate; You are required to take steps needed to legally drive in the United States.

• Individual's health insurance.

 

Responsibilities and Duties

Essential Functions

• Ensure the highest standards of the humane treatment of animals.

• Follow the farm’s biosecurity protocols at all times.

• Monitor and assist with feeding systems and ensure animals are fed and watered according to respective protocols.

• Maintain and monitor overall animal health, care and treatment of animals.

• Perform routine and seasonal vaccinations and injections as directed.

• Perform general facility cleaning, maintenance, and hygiene.

• Power wash while following the farm’s cleaning and disinfection processes, including to pre-check, perform the appropriate preparation, abiding by the safety protocols, and ensuring the equipment is in effective working order.

• Assist with the recording and maintaining of accurate production records and documentation.

• Follow all safety policies and procedures, and communicate any potential hazards and near misses to the department lead or supervisor.

• Perform heat checking and the breeding/insemination processes.

• Monitor, test and care for pregnant sows.

• Assist with weaning of piglets and movement of animals between barns and departments.

• Prepare the farrowing rooms, assist in the proper farrowing of sows, and day one pig care.

• Assist in the fostering of piglets.

• Process and castrate piglets.

• Adjust and hang heat lamps as required, check on heat mats.

 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to move throughout the farm; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, balance, climb, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) weight of up to 50 pounds. Position requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp. Frequently required, for extended periods of time, to stand, walk, stoop, reach with hands and arms, kneel, bend at the waist, climb, perform repetitive motions, and communicate.

 

Qualifications and Skills

Competencies

• Respect and care for animals.

• Ability to work effectively on a team.

• Demonstrates initiative and time-management skills.

• Safety oriented.

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to do basic math such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

• Regular and consistent attendance.

• For positions that require travel to another barn location(s), a valid driver’s license and insurable driving record is required.

• Ability to drive a skid loader.