Animal Feed Nutritionist at Best Search Recruitment

Job Roles/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.

Key Skills/Experience

• 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.

Interested and qualified candidates should forward their applications and CV's to: sode@bestsearchrecruitment.com

Note: This role will be a permanent role and will be located at our company headquarters located in Panda, Karu Local Government, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.