Animal Nutritionist at Best Search Recruitment

Description
To ensure that our goals of supporting the success of every poultry and fish farmer are achieved through the use of our high quality feeds, we have integrated into our operations, complementary factories for the processing of soybeans and manufacture of high quality maize meal for human consumption. With the clear understanding that quality inputs form the basis for quality feeds, we additionally have a commercial farm for the cultivation of our core inputs being maize and soybeans.

Job Summary

• The poultry nutritionist will be mandated to ensure that we are always producing the highest quality feeds which meet the performance expectations of our customers, while ensuring least cost formulation is observed.
• The nutritionist will be expected to continuously monitor input options and availability and examine input quality parameters through the use of our internal laboratory equipment.
• Additionally the poultry nutritionist will be expected to work closely with quality control to monitor final product quality and nutritional parameters are met.
• It is also expect that the poultry nutritionist will work closely with our internal poultry feed trials and with our farmers to ensure our feeds continue to meet and exceed expectations, while continuously seeking options for diet improvements.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current poultry diets to determine nutritional value.
• Evaluate inputs for nutritional values and quality monitoring.
• Examine alternate input options.
• Setting up and managing a laboratory for product testing, of both inputs and out puts from a feed mill, oil mill and maize meal factory.
• Working with external laboratories as may be required for regular testing and cataloguing of input and output nutritional values.
• Formulating diets on a lowest cost basis.
• Formulating diets to meet certain bird performance targets.
• Formulating premixes and feed concentrate packages based on market and customer requirements.
• Assessing input suppliers and products being offered.
• Managing poultry feed trial farm, monitoring, data collection and analysis of feed formulations against poultry performance.
• Formulate diets for specific regions and climatic conditions.
• Providing information and nutritional support to customers as may be required.

Requirements

• 8 years experience in a similar role.
• Experience in lowest cost diet formulation software.
• Laboratory development and management is essential.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
• Extensive experience in poultry diet development is essential, for both Layer and Broiler birds.
• Self motivated and hard working.