Assistant Ranch Manager Trainee

Overview

Pay Rate: .50 per hour

(Additional

.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:00pm and 11:59pm. Additional .00 per hour for hours worked between 12:00am-4:59am)

• To learn all the functions of the Ranch Manager and the Assistant Ranch Manager as they relate to day-to-day fryer ranch duties. Emphasis should be placed on the importance of quickly developing all the necessary skills for becoming an Assistant Ranch Foreperson.
• Learn about and assist with the grow out program so that ranch setup, brooding, temperatures, ventilation, mortality, vaccination, and medication are sustained to meet the highest level of quality and productivity.
• Learn about and assist with the maintenance of the facilities and equipment for optimal use and appearance.
• Learn about and assist the Foreperson with feed projections, coordination with feed mills of feed deliveries, maintenance of accurate feed inventories and proper feeding methods.
• Learn about and assist with the maintenance of accurate and complete records pertaining to all ranch activities, feed, mortality, labor, production, and energy consumption.
• React to any ranch emergency that could adversely affect the chickens, day or night.
• In the absence of the Foreperson, take full responsibility for the ranch facility and the birds.
• Maintain a high level of safety awareness and adhere to and enforce all safety rules, procedures and guidelines.
• Learn about and adhere to the strict sanitation and disease prevention guidelines; assist in constant monitoring of bird health, reporting any/all abnormalities to the Ranch Foreperson or Field Supervisor.

Qualifications

• Must be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Must have good mathematical and organizational skills.
• Must be able to move 25 pounds.
• Preferably, will have poultry-raising experience.
• Preferably, will have a mechanical aptitude.