Hatchery Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Headstart Hatching is seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to join our team as a Hatchery Manager

$5000 SIGN IN BONUS

POSITION PURPOSE

The Hatchery Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations at the hatchery to ensure the efficient, safe, and high-quality incubation and hatching of poultry. This role ensures optimal environmental conditions, maintains compliance with biosecurity and regulatory standards, and supports production goals through effective planning and resource management. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, technical expertise and a passion for animal welfare and operational excellence.

RESPONSABILITIES

• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation of hatchery to ensure the best performance results.
• Direct and coordinate hatchery activities such as setting and hatching eggs, maintenance of hatchery building, maintaining of incubation and hatching equipment, poult services and the poult loadout.
• Plan egg setting / hatching schedules based on the customers’ requests for specific egg set volumes.
• Work with hatchery supervisors, making sure that they are fully competent in supervising their respective areas of responsibility.
• Inspect the most important processes that supervisors are responsible for to ensure accuracy, efficacy, and efficiency.
• Lead, train, motivate, and mentor employees in the hatchery with the objective of building and maintaining a high performing team to meet or exceed production goals such as hatchability, poult quality and competitive poult cost.
• Review the key indicators of daily, weekly and monthly hatchery performance.
• Promote all-inclusive hatchery culture with focus on open communication, employee engagement and sense of belonging.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
• Follow and enforce all company regulations pertaining to bio security, animal welfare and safety.
• Collaborate with other LSI companies in a constructive manner.
• Establish and maintain respectful working relationships with business partners (egg suppliers and poult customers).
• Must be willing to work varied schedules since some weekends will be required.
• Follow the directives of the General Manager
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the company.

Skills

Abilities

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and educational background :

Travel

Other

Schedule

WORKING CONDITIONS

Hatcheries have a range of working conditions depending on the department. Majority of the positions have a room temperature of the mid to high 70s. Fluff is a natural byproduct of hatching birds, which can be spread throughout the facility. Cleaning is very important to maintain a safe environment for the poults, so some washing with hot water may be required which may raise humidity in certain cases. Deviations of these conditions is dependent on department and the need for eggs or poults.

Who We Are :

Headstart Hatching is the first turkey hatchery in the world to hatch commercial poults with immediate access to feed and water from the moment the hatchling leaves the egg and throughout their stay from hatch to the farm. This industry-changing technology will eventually be shared with the world, but first we’re going to put it to good use for our region’s benefit. Located in Willmar, MN, we are part of a family of companies that have made this place our home for over 75 years, and Headstart Hatching is the next (and not last) company we’ve committed to build here.

Benefits at Headstart Hatching :

We are proud to offer a generous benefit package in addition to competitive compensation. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance options, a Health Savings Account with company match, 401K plan with company match up to 4% of your compensation, PTO accrual, two personal days per year, holiday pay, company paid short term disability, and company paid life insurance.

Pay Range $ 68,000 - $85,000 a year

Apply Online or to Further Inquire, Contact :

Francisca Gonzalez / HR Specialist

Francisca.gonzalez@life - scienceinnovations.com

320-222-9827

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