Dairy Farm Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Recruitment Matters (Pty) Ltd Full time

Our client in the FMCG industry is looking for a General Manager to join their team;
- Ensure required quantity, productivity and quality of output is achieved at optimal cost.
- Responsible for the preparation of annual farm budgets and measurement against subsequent performance.
- Oversee, the day to day running of the dairy (Feeding, Breeding, Milking and Herd health making sure that all areas are within specified specifications.
- Responsible for the preparation of comprehensive monthly KPI reports and calculation of production costs.
- Monitor cost of inventory, products or services and preparation of full rearing costs for both heifers and bulls.
- Responsible, for the management of production feed costs for all herd groups.
- Responsible, for planning and securing all feed resources
- maize, soya and grass silage; grass, lucerne hay, wheat straw, dairy concentrates and brewers grains.
- Ensure, all herd data is captured into both ALPRO and DIMSSA Herd Management Systems.
- Responsible, for all recommendations and implementation of breeding values and traits improvements for the continuous improvement of milk production, mobility and health traits of the Holstein Friesian dairy herd through Artificial Insemination.
- Work with the Herd Veterinarian to ensure the health and welfare of the dairy herd is held at the highest standard and that the compartmentalisation audits by the
- Zambian Veterinary department are passed and the status maintained.
- Lead the implementation and maintenance of the certification of the GLOBAL G.A.P. farm production standard.
- Manage and control the maintenance and expansion construction projects with internal and external service providers.
- Drive the development of Standard Operating Procedures, and ensure best practices and minimum standards/processes are easily accessible and regularly updated.
- Provide world class learning, coaching, support and development to Dairy Farm Staff.
- Promote and adhere to SHERQ procedure, policy and guidelines.
- People Management, accountable for performance management, formal informal development and succession planning.

**Key Skills**:

- Must be good team player.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Global business acumen.
- Problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented mindset are highly valued.

**Qualifications**:

- Diploma/Degree, DIMSSA, ALPRO, LMI-Dairy feeding system. HACCP, HIRA.
- 10 years’ experience in Dairy Industry.
- Competent in DIMSSA-Dairy Herd management system.
- Trained in ALPRO-Dairy Herd management system.
- Competent in LMI-Dairy feeding system.
- Trained in Food safety-hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP)
- Hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent


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