Job Description

Our firm is a rapidly expanding poultry agribusiness integrated with feed milling, layer production, broiler chicken production with modern processing facility for meat processing as well as a structured ougrower scheme where farmers produce the grains used to formulate the feed.

We are seeking a self-motivated Farm Manager. The selected farm manager will be responsible for:

• Raising layer  and broiler birds from dayold to maturity
• Maintaining satisfactory production levels for layers and broilers at all times
• Ensuring biosafety and security at the farm
• Manage farm workers and ensure the farm operations are professionally and efficiently managed
• Supervise the work and activities at the feed mill
• Responsible for marketing of processed meat and eggs
• Ensure that adequate books and proper records are kept using accounting software and a technology platform
• Submit to management a monthly progress report
• Ensure all physical assets, pen houses and facilities are maintained and kept in good order
• Ensure feed suppliers (maize, soya and other feed ingredients) are supplied, inventorized at all times

Required Skills or Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience managing a commercial poultry farm producing both layers and broilers
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken
• Strong people management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to supervise unskilled personnel
• Excellent report writing skills and ability to use technology platform with minimum training
• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in agriculture or agribusiness with specialization in animal production (poultry)
• Obsessed with keeping higher standards of biosafety and understand the impact of poor bio-safety measures in poultry farm
• Highly quantitative – you are a data-driven decision maker
• Intellectually curious and an original thinker
• Process driven – the ends don’t always justify the means for you
• Empathetic leader – your EQ is as high as your IQ
• Passionate about working in a business with strong social impact and committed to new ways of doing things
• Passionate about innovative technology
• Have a consultative approach to problem-solving for clients
• Able to market agricultural commodities
• Able to manage supplies and inventories and ability to forecast supply demands
• Able to network in the poultry industry