Description:
Our client, a family-run hatching company, is currently looking for experienced farm managers to join our team. The successful candidates will play a key role in ensuring the production of top-quality hatching eggs while managing daily routines, ordering consumables, and overseeing stock health and welfare.
Key responsibilities include recruitment and training of employees, maintaining farm cleanliness and bio-security measures, and adhering to Health and Safety standards. The ideal candidate should have a stock management background, the ability to manage employees, and an organised approach to duties.
Main Duties and Responsibilities of the Farm Manager:
- Ensure depletion and restocking is well organised and efficient, and economic use of materials is practised
- Ensure farm is well maintained, to arrange and organise Contractors, ensuring they are aware of their responsibilities
- Be aware of Health and Safety standards and requirements, including Risk
- Assessments and COSHH, ensuring full implementation is practiced
- Ensure tight control is maintained on quantitative uses of consumables such as feed, shavings, gas and other services
- Ensure unit is clean and tidy, and strict bio-security measures are implemented
- Ensure all Codes of Practice are adhered to at all times
- Ensure site security is maintained at all time
- Responsible for day to day management of farm Employees, including allocation of work to ensure smooth running of farm
- Responsible for accurate completion of Employee timesheets, holidays, sickness management and training of new employees
- Undertake any other duties as required to fulfil the needs of the position
- Attend training courses which are determined as appropriate by the Company
Skills and experience sought:
- Excellent administration skills
- Effective communicator
- Able to work well under pressure
- Full UK Driving license
- Stock management background
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative