Broiler Manager

**Job Advert Summary**:
**Rainbow Chicken** is currently looking for a qualified and experienced **Broiler Manager** to be based in **Kwa-Zulu Natal**.

**As a Broiler manager, the job holder is expected to**:

- Make all operational decisions that fall within the ambit of responsibility
- Immediately solve or address all farm operational and resource problems or issues within the ambit of responsibility
- Identify and implement innovations, particularly those that will improve farm productivity, actual production, quality birds and/or lower costs to deliver stipulated KPI’s

**Leadership Standards**
- Provide inspirational leadership
- Create a culture of execution and a “can do” approach
- Display business insight and innovate
- Develop customer service obsession
Develop commitment through engagement

**Customer Relationships**
- Internal
- All levels of Management including VET Teams
- Processing plant
- SHEQ team
- Planners
- Feed Mill

**External**
- All Contract Growers
- Health and safety inspectors
- Department of Labour

**Minimum Requirements**:

- A degree or diploma in Agriculture (3 years) Advantageous
- Valid Code EB drivers’ license
- 10 years relevant experience in a similar environment
- Extensive Knowledge of Broiler Poultry production
- Excellent technical and people skills

**Knowledge**
- Broiler Production and Animal Welfare
- Agricultural economics (supply and demand)
- Understand basic poultry nutrition, growth, anatomy and reproduction
- Agricultural and farm operations and processes
- Ability to recognize ventilation, brooding, feeding and water requirements of the birds and make the correct adjustments
- Operation of farm equipment
- Lighting programs for optimal performance
- Calculation of feed requirements
- Ability to make feeding decisions to obtain target weight
- Troubleshooting to achieve targets and objectives
- Understand disease and biosecurity fundamentals as well as vaccination and immunity principles
- Labour relations legislation and procedures
- ISO and health, safety and environmental legislation
- National best practice standards

**Skills**
- Contract drafting
- Financial understanding
- Computer literacy
- Interpersonal
- Negotiating
- Organisational
- Administrative
- Verbal and written communication
- Interpersonal
- Logical thinking
- Innovative thinking
- Problem solving
- Decision-making
- Analytical and evaluative thinking

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Production Planning and Management**
- Establish and maintain systems to produce the highest quality broilers across the region.
- Liaise with the Hatchery Managers and agricultural planning team to ensure best placements of flocks

**Strategic Contribution**
- Conduct weekly operational meetings to address opportunities, review performances per farm and plan for future optimum performance.

**Services Management**
- Oversee the services contracts operating within the region and their performance against standards which include activities prior to placement.

**SHERQ Compliance**
- Ensure full compliance with relevant TQMS (including specific key account requirements) and health and safety regulations for optimum production and the provision of a safe working environment.
- Ensure environmentally sustainable practices are implemented and adhered to and that resource usage is managed effectively (e.g. water, electricity and gas).
- Work with external and internal auditors to ensure non-compliance is identified and addressed.

**Information Management and Reporting**
- Establish a system of accurate data management ensuring that accurate and up-to-date information is captured into the system daily.
- Report on operational performance and compliance to the Regional Executive

**Regional Management**
- Conduct regular site visits.
- Lead and develop staff within the context of the Labour Relations Act, Employment Equity Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the Skills Development Act.
- Champion training and development of the team through the utilisation of available training opportunities or contributing to the
- development of new training solutions in collaboration with regional and national training specialists.

**Maintenance**
- Ensure that an equipment maintenance programme is formulated and implemented to maintain the working condition of equipment and schedule routine or non-routine maintenance.
- Monitor the execution of the maintenance programme.

**KPI’s**
- Farm mortality rates and health status of chicks
- Farm flock performance, Hygiene and Cleaning, ALM, ADG, FCR, mortality, ammonia burns, farm condemns) (as applicable)
- Data capturing rate and accuracy
- Farm vaccination program coverage
- Farm equipment reliability
- Farm staff retentionFarm budget vs expenditure
- Staff training, development, and succession planning