Poultry Farm Supervisor at Eastern Plains Integrated Farms Limited

Job Summary

• The Pen house supervisor shall assist the Technical Manager Poultry to ensure that all farm operations are efficiently and effectively managed for optimum result.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Directly supervises the pen attendants to ensure the Pen houses and the surroundings are always clean and hygienic
• Assigns duties to farm attendants and ensures that they are carried out in an efficient manner; duties such as feeding, vaccinating poultry, cleaning and disinfecting /fumigating chicken houses, running of manure belts, shipping eggs or maintaining buildings
• Assist the Poultry technical Manager in maintaining high standard of biosecurity in the Farm
• Assist the Poultry technical Manager in ensuring that vaccination and drugs are correctly administered to avoid and treat avian diseases
• Keeps accurate record and renders timely report on all the activities in the Pen House to the TM- mortality, suspected avian disease symptom, birds condition, feeding, water intake etc
• Cooperates with the TM to ensure that the adequately birds are fed to achieve good body weight for optimum egg production
• Liaises with maintenance team to ensure effective litter and manure disposal
• Leads and ensures that the attendance adhere and comply with the standard operating procedures
• Records data and creates reports on worker attendance, budget, supplies and animal growth.
• Liaises with the maintenance team to ensure the machinery that performs certain tasks, such as egg collection, feeding, water lines are functional
• Training new workers, providing care to injured or ill livestock and enforcing workplace sanitation practices to prevent the spread of disease.
• Participates in work activities to expedite workload.
• Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption, and poultry mortality reports and renders daily report to the Farm Manager.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Higher National Diploma in Animal science or Animal production.
• 2 - 3 years’ post-graduation working experience as a Poultry Farm experience.