Commercial Broiler Farm Manager at Taghini Foods Limited

Taghini Foods is a traditional poultry processing company based in Ibadan. We produce and supply fresh and frozen poultry products to wholesalers, caterers and further processors, including products suitable for Halal customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Commercial Broiler Farm Manager

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Plan, organize and execute commercial broiler farming tasks and projects of the organisation.
• Oversee operation of Commercial Broiler Farm Operation department,set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met;
• A minimum of seven production cycles per year.
• Average body weight of 2kg with narrow range of 1.8kg to 2.2kg using maximum of 3.2kg of professional feed per bird within 4.5 weeks.
• FCR of 1.56.
• Mortality not exceeding 3%.
• Low Staff turnover and overhead.
• Follow Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for pen house and farm preparation, stocking, rearing and harvesting.
• Adaption of stocking densities if necessary.
• Preparation of stocking calendar in consultation with approved hatchery(ies), Abattoir Manager and Sales Manager.
• Managing staff in order to enhance farm performance and cost effectiveness.
• Resolving staff conflict and disagreement .
• Liaising with feed and day-old chick procedures, ensuring positive working relationships are maintained.
• Using different shed management techniques in order to find optimum bird growing requirement.
• Maintaining a high level of farm presentation at all times.
• Maintaining all farm assests.
• Designing and ensuring bio-security, health and safety, environment and animal welfare procedures and adhered to all times.
• Operational Oversight of all pen house regarding preparation and maintenance, feeding, health and quality assurance, growth and harvesting; overall responsibility for operations of our farming estates with their pen house.
• Manage and monitor metrics, Key Performance Indicators(KPI) tracking, and reports.
• Oversight of business expansion of the broiler production through identification of acquisition targets (e.g. farming estate, smaller competitors), organic growth (expansion of own pen house and estates) and consolidation of operations(consolidation of estates if financially operationally beneficail)
• Other functions as prescribed by the management.

Requirements and Skills

• B.Sc / HND in Animal Science, Agronomy, Agriculture, or related field.
• 7+ years experience
• Strong decision-making.
• Problem-solving.
• Communication.
• The ability to work with people.
• Leadership.
• Administration skills.
• Knowledge of key equipment practices.

Salary
Negotiable.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.