Animal Welfare Superintendent; Livingston Complex

Animal Welfare Superintendent (Livingston Complex)

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued team members will shine through in everything we do. Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team.

We offer the experience of a large organization; however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage team members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Pay Range: $78,850 to $98,575 per year.

The primary responsibility of this position will be to support animal welfare (AW) and biosecurity programs that ensure that Foster Farms poultry are raised, handled, and transported in a safe, humane, and appropriate manner throughout our supply chain in accordance with company and national standards for animal care and handling. Animal Welfare Superintendent positions will report directly to the Complex Manager with secondary reporting into assigned Chief Animal Welfare Officer.

Specifically, this role will include:

• Performing animal welfare and handling audits.
• Performing biosecurity audits.
• Assisting with the development and management of best practice training programs.
• Reviewing AW trends for the assigned production area(s).
• Ensuring effective interdepartmental communication.

• Promote animal welfare culture throughout Foster Farms live and processing operations through education and engagement.
• Assist with the development and refinement of animal welfare and biosecurity training materials that will be used by Foster Farms and contractual staff at live animal facilities.
• Facilitate annual training at production facilities, when possible, for personnel that have contact with live animals.
• Assist with training material and deliver training to ensure that team members understand best practices and animal welfare expectations.
• Verify compliance to ensure training is completed during regular live production visits and verify understanding during communication with team members during audits.
• Conduct unannounced and planned audits at Foster Farms production facilities, hatcheries, and farms to verify animal welfare and biosecurity program compliance with company and industry standards.
• Conduct process audits to verify animal handling procedures and humane transportation of live poultry.
• Provide constructive feedback and communicate with production managers at company locations during audits.
• Ensure compliance with all company, customer, and governmental standards.
• Review and record audit results within the company database. Including flock closing reports and data as related to American Humane requirements.
• Assist with the refinement of current Foster Farms AW audits based on observations of bird care, bird handling, and transportation at live production facilities to ensure program implementation.
• Assist with execution of 3rd party welfare audits (AHC, Silliker/Mérieux Nutri Sciences, PVP, Chick Fil-A, etc.) within assigned production area(s), including scheduling audits, facilitating and attending audits, and communication as related to auditors, contacts, follow-up deficiency reports, and audit fee payments.
• Collaborate with business leaders in assigned area(s) (e.g., complex managers, hatchery crew, farm managers) and communicate directly with production departments after all animal welfare visits/audits.
• Provide technical support and assistance with the Foster Farms AW and biosecurity program and ensure implementation of corrective actions and audit recommendations.
• Create and distribute written audit reports after each visit.
• Analyze trends for animal welfare data for assigned complex(es) and participate in regular meetings with the Foster Farms AW Team, Sr. Manager, and Director of Animal Welfare.
• Assist the Foster Farms AW QA Team with internal special projects, research trials, training projects, and…