Assistant Hatchery Manager

Overview

As Assistant Hatchery Manager, you will support the Hatchery Manager to run the hatchery efficiently, focusing on people management, egg handling, incubation, and despatch of day-old chicks. You will collaborate across teams, maintain standards, and ensure compliance with safety and welfare practices. The role offers hands-on leadership in a busy hatchery, with scope to influence processes and customer relations. This is a chance to advance in poultry and agricultural operations within a growing business.

Responsibilities

• Support the Hatchery Manager in the day-to-day hatchery operations
• Manage and develop hatchery operatives, including training
• Plan duty rotas, holidays and overtime; provide management cover
• Coordinate movement of eggs between farms and the hatchery
• Oversee production, processing and despatch of day-old chicks
• Coordinate egg packing, transfer and vaccination requirements
• Ensure hatchers, setters and equipment are maintained
• Oversee waste disposal, hygiene monitoring and hatchery standards
• Maintain accurate records and input data into agricultural systems
• Support purchasing of equipment, packaging, cleaning materials, PPE and supplies
• Maintain relationships with customers and suppliers
• Ensure compliance with legislation, health & safety and company procedures
• Provide night and weekend on-call cover on a rota
• Promote housekeeping, hygiene, animal welfare and environmental practices

Key requirements

• Previous people management experience
• A keen interest in agriculture
• Valid driving licence
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Good computer literacy
• Mechanical aptitude
• Ability to participate in an on-call rota covering nights and weekends
• communication
• problem-solving
• initiative
• computer literacy
• mechanical aptitude
• data entry into systems

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