Farm General Manager at Sigma Consulting

Sigma Consulting is one of the fast-growing Nigeria’s management & healthcare consulting firms. We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions and deliver the sustainable success they desire. For more than 5 years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients, results that go beyond financials and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic, sustainable and clients oriented. Sigma has more than 41 consultants in major industries and provided services in 3 countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Farm General Manager

Location: Awka, Anambra
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description & Responsibilities
Management Role:

• Responsible for overseeing the entire poultry operations.
• Direct the planning and managing of farm operations and handle farm business administration and marketing.
• Plan, develop, and implements policies, procedures, and practices for operation of the Poultry farm to ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Directs and coordinates, farm activities, for example feeding and production of chicks and eggs and growth of broiler.
• Plan, coordinate, and direct various activities within production to achieve the set targets.
• Manage farm financing, including negotiating loans, establishing relationships with purchasers.
• Purchase needed farm equipment and supplies and consumables
• maintaining and monitoring daily and weekly production records and presenting monthly performance reports to executive management.
• Oversee routine production planning and execution of periodical, preventive and breakdown maintenance of machinery such as Boilers, Pellet Press, etc
• Submit innovative ideas to the top management for the continuous growth of the organization.

Health & Environment:

• Plan and manage safety and hygiene in factory premises.
• Ensure all organic Poultry sanitation procedures are followed, to include the use of good quality of chick and broiler chicken.
• Sterilizing and maintaining facilities and equipment and ensure disease prevention for good bird health.
• Ensure standard ventilation guidelines for environmental closed houses in extreme whether condition.

Operations:

• Maintain high quality, healthy Poultry herds. Identify and respond to health, environmental and nutritional requirements of poultry Industry.
• Handled routine Breeder, Broiler, Layer flock health maintenance program & established guidelines for Good Health Management, encompassing vaccination, medication, Disinfection & Bio-security program.
• Ensure that birds are growing regularly using consistent techniques.
• Supervising and following up on different types of vaccines methods like: vaccinating with spraying, drinking water, subcutaneous & intramuscular injection & its laboratory tests.
• Maintained a high standard of poultry husbandry like Chick/Egg management, Growth Management, Ventilation, pre-processing management and nutrition.
• Ensuring company guidelines & production standards pertaining to, Sanitation & disinfection of hatchery, broiler houses, layer & breeding farm.

Qualification

• First Degree in Social Sciences or Business Management Discipline.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years progressive experience in Poultry Farm Management.

Requirements:

• Effective people management skills
• Knowledge of Environmental management.
• Knowledge of different breeds of chicken and fowl.
• Skilled in maintaining the health and hygiene of the birds.
• Knowledge of optimum bird and fowl nutrition
• Efficient in maintaining safety standards and cleanliness at the farm
• Knowledge of pest and disease control.
• Knowledge of the latest technological advancements in poultry management.

Skills and Competencies:

• People Management skill
• Result-oriented
• Self-motivated
• Leadership qualities
• Good communication skills.

Salary
N70,000 - N1,000,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
12th June, 2022.