Job Title: Assistant Hatchery Manager
Reporting to: Hatchery Manager
Contract Type: Full-time / Permanent
Location: Silver Hill Hatcheries, Co. Monaghan
Key Accountabilities:
- Organising daily work schedules and assisting in managing a team.
- Assist with daily deliveries, egg inventory, incubation, transfer and equipment.
- Drive performance to achieve high-quality day-old ducklings.
- Manage daily production data and report at the production meetings.
- Assist with maintenance issues and preventative maintenance with the maintenance team as required.
- Enforce Silver Hill Hatchery code of practice.
- Performance management throughout the process from egg receiving to dispatch of day olds to our growing farms.
- Liaise with the supply farms and growing managers on egg and day-old quality.
- Ensure all bio security measures are always adhered to.
- Performance of other related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Previous poultry experience desirable.
- Ideally a degree in poultry, animal science or another related field.
- Ability to be flexible and respond to a changing environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to prioritise and work at pace to complete tasks effectively.
- Must live or be willing to relocate to live within 20 km of the hatchery.
Closing date for application is Friday 17/01/2025
