Pig Production Technician

Essential Functions

• Ensure the highest standards of the humane treatment of animals.
• Follow the farm’s bio-security protocols at all times.
• Maintain and monitor overall animal health, care and treatment of animals.
• Perform routine and seasonal vaccinations and injections as directed.
• Perform general facility cleaning, maintenance, and hygiene.
• Power wash following the farm’s cleaning and disinfection processes, including to pre-check, performing the appropriate preparation, abiding by the safety protocols and ensuring the equipment is in effective and efficient working order.
• Auxiliary in the recording and maintaining of accurate production records and documentation.
• Follow all safety policies and procedures; and communicate any potential hazards and near misses to the Department Lead or Manager.
• Perform heat checking and the breeding/insemination processes.
• Maintain and care for pregnant sows.
• Auxiliary in the weaning of piglets and movement of animals between barns and departments.
• Prepare the farrow rooms, assist in the proper farrowing of sows and day one pig care.
• Auxiliary in the fostering of piglets.
• Process and castrate piglets.
• Adjust and hang heat lamps as required, check on heat mats.

Work Environment

• Constant exposure to dust, animal dander and odor.
• Normally loud noise level in the work environment.
• Employees stand and walk on concrete for most of their shift.
• Seasonally, the employee is exposed to a variety of extreme conditions within the barn that include heat and humidity.

Physical Demands

• Ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to move throughout the farm.
• Required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, balance, climb, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) weight of up to 50 pounds.
• Frequent need for extended periods of time to stand, walk, stoop, reach with hands and arms, kneel, bend at the waist, climb, perform repetitive motions, and communicate.

Qualifications and Skills

• Competencies: Respect and care for animals; Ability to work effectively on a team; Demonstrates initiative and time-management skills; Safety oriented.
• Basic Qualifications: Ability to do basic math such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication; Ability to communicate clearly and effectively; Regular and consistent attendance; Valid driver’s license and insurable driving record for positions requiring travel to another barn location(s); Ability to drive a skid steer.
• Culture Description: Detail-oriented, outcome-oriented, stable, and team-oriented.