Are you passionate about farming, animal welfare, and working in a dynamic, hands-on environment? Our client is looking for an Assistant Farm Manager to support the Farm Manager in running a top-performing operation, ensuring birds are healthy and raised to the highest standards.
What You will Be Doing:
Assisting in all aspects of farm management to optimise performance and maintain top-quality stock.
Ensuring birds meet weight, quality, and welfare standards while working within budgets and targets.
Providing relief cover for Farm Managers as needed, keeping farms running smoothly.
Managing a small but efficient team, ensuring productivity, training, and motivation.
Handling the logistics-transporting birds to veterinary services and delivering essential goods between farms.
Keeping records up to date, ordering supplies, and ensuring weekly reports are submitted.
Taking part in vaccinations, bird weighing, catching, and processing, ensuring accuracy and smooth operations.
Maintaining farm security, safety, and hygiene, ensuring a clean and professional environment.
Monitoring and adjusting ventilation, heating, feed, water, and lighting to create the best conditions for our birds.
Troubleshooting minor equipment issues and working with maintenance teams to keep everything running efficiently.
What You Will Need:
Essential:
Full driving license
Strong people skills and leadership abilities
Sound decision-making skills
Basic computer literacy
Desirable:
Experience in farming or a similar field
Previous supervisory experience
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, hands-on role and want to be part of a dedicated team, I would love to hear from you.
For more details, contact me, Rachel Richardson at (phone number removed) or (phone number removed), email (url removed) or connect with me on LinkedIn. Do not worry about an up-to-date CV. Send what you have and we can take it from there