Poultry Breeder Manager at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited is the most sought-after Human Resource Solution Provider with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We have a reputation for satisfying and surpassing clients expectations through our core offerings: Recruitment and Selection, Outsourcing and Training and Development; To accomplish these we leverage on creating and managing change in organizations by improving efficiency through our proven and dynamic HR solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Poultry Breeder Manager

Location: Osun 
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and execute commercial breeder farming tasks for EC pens and open houses
• Handle Operations of Commercial Breeder Farms, setting goals and objectives, and designing a framework for these to be met
• A minimum of seven production cycles per year.
• Average body weight of 2kg with a narrow range of 1.8-2 kg using a maximum of 3 kg of professional feed per bird within 4.5 weeks.
• FCR of 1.5.
• Mortality not exceeding 5%.
• Follow Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for pen house and farm preparation, stocking, rearing, and harvesting.
• Prepare the stocking calendar in consultation with the hatchery, abattoir manager, and sales manager.
• Adaption of stocking densities if necessary.
• Managing staff to enhance farm performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Low Staff turnover and overhead.
• Liaising with feed and day-old chick procedures, maintaining positive working relationships.
• Resolving staff conflict and disagreement.
• Using different shed management techniques to find optimum bird growing requirements.
• Maintaining a high level of farm presentation at all times.
• Maintaining all farm assets.
• Designing and ensuring bio-security, health and safety, environment, and animal welfare procedures and adhered to all times.
• Operational Oversight of all pen houses 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 organic growth (expansion of own pen house)
• 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.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Leadership.
• Administration skills.
• Knowledge of key equipment practices.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: cv@ascentech.com.ng using the Job Title and location as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only qualified candidate will be contacted.