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Are you an experienced poultry industry professional seeking a more fulfilling career with excellent work/life balance, the potential to earn over $60,000 annually, and a comprehensive benefits package at no cost? Join a well-established organization dedicated to elevating your flock management skills to the next level!
Braswell Family Farms, one of the largest specialty egg producers and organic feed mills on the east coast , is seeking a Flock Service Specialist to join their team in the Jeterville, VA area.
If you have 1 year of poultry flock management, this is a career you should explore more into!
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Why you should consider joining the Braswell Family Team:
- Flexible Schedule: Enjoy the freedom to travel for work four days a week on a flexible schedule ( typically 7:00 am - 3:00 pm ), while maintaining strong client relationships.
- Great Pay: Earn $45,000 - $60,000 per year depending on your experience, plus a 20% bonus program.
- Extensive Benefits Package: Includes health, dental, and vision insurance (with enrollment), a 401(k) plan, free life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, a company-provided vehicle, 5 days of sick leave per year, and 2 weeks of PTO.
- Growing Industry: Join an organization committed to your success, with opportunities to move laterally into various unique roles.
- Strong Tenured Company: Learn from some of the industry s best in a family-oriented team environment!
Duties and Responsibilities: - Performs bird health functions. Ensure grower has set up house correctly, prior to layers arriving at contract houses.
- Reviews weekly records. Monitors and responds to bird weight and uniformity, mortality, feed consumption, and blood sampling. Creates lighting programs for each flock.
- Works with Labs to get flock diseases diagnosed.
- Monitors and responds to house cleanliness, ventilation, feeding and water system, and fly and rodent control problems including monitoring of the applicable animal welfare programs.
- Identifies problems or potential problems and works through possible solutions.
- Diplomatically makes recommendations on house maintenance and bird health to house management and/or ownership and creates an environment for positive change.
- Follows the philosophy of BFF s feed program in coordination with flock health. Recommends and orders various feeds and treatments - sending full feed loads with no returns.
- Stays informed of recent developments in the poultry industry through literature and training sessions.
- Performs all other duties as directed by the Live Operations Manager.
- Takes supplies to growers to include vaccines, wormer, chick paper, rodent control, etc.
- Ensures growers are using supplies properly.
- Checks behind crew work by examining beak rimming and vaccinations.
- Sprays/vaccinates several times during each flock.
- Keep accurate records - ensuring growers are keeping accurate records: mortality, outside access log, sanitation Sheets, etc.
- At the end of each flock, take blood and litter samples. Process and send to appropriate lab.
- Take blood samples to Raleigh if AI testing is required.
- Always look for ways to improve the flock.
- Work closely with other flock supervisors.
- Helps drive all of BFF s Environment Management Systems (EMS) in an impactful manner to include monitoring/reducing operationally related negative effects on the environment as well as pollution prevention.
About the Company: Braswell Family Farms is a fourth-generation family owned, vertically integrated company producing and marketing quality, and value-added feed and egg products for American Families for over 77 years. Today, four generations of the Braswell family have been committed to innovation and have received national recognition for their operating level of excellence. The Braswell s, the leadership staff and 175+ team members scattered across several locations, take pride in providing the highest quality egg and feed products to both consumers and customers every day of the year.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to the individual s race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, genetic information, status as a military veteran, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.