Direct employers hire you directly for employment within their business or subsidiaries. They typically handle all admin and payments themselves.
Main Duties
- Supervise the site and facilities in terms of the required human resources, physical resources, safety requirement, consumables, documentation and measurement devices.
- Provide overall maintenance and compliance of the Company Quality Assurance (QA) program for the site.
- Supervise data collection and recording.
- Undertake specific tasks assigned by management to ensure environmental, QA and WHS goals are met.
- Implement preventable maintenance programs.
- Supervise trial sheds, collect and record data.
- Select breeding and sale stock.
- Supervise and participate in daily inspection of livestock.
- Ensure animals assessed, identified, treated and recorded in accordance with the Company Herd Health Plan and the industry's Model code of practice.
- Euthanise sick or injured stock in a human manner and in accordance with the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Pigs.
- Conduct post-mortem examinations of deceased livestock and report findings.
- Collect boar semen at artificial insemination laboratory.
- Supervise and manage the mating of animals via individually supervised mating or through artificial insemination.
- Undertake processing duties within the artificial insemination laboratory.
- Supervise the birthing process including the ability to physically conduct unsupervised internal assessments during parturition to minimise mortality rates.
- Participate in company/industry training sessions and workshops as required.
- Perform any other duty as required by the Production Unit Manager.