Hatchery Manager

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

$5000 SIGN IN BONUS

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.

• 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.
• 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.

• Strong self-motivation, interpersonal, analytical and negotiation skills required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Sound judgement and decision making.
• Effective time management.

• Ability to learn the specifics of functioning of hatchery equipment and biological characteristics of breeder eggs and newly hatched poults.
• Ability to model core values as a representative of the company.
• Ability to communicate openly and concisely with others.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from employees at all organizational levels. Ensures confidentiality with staff members.
• Must be well organized with extreme attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to define issues, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred. Equivalent knowledge and experience (six plus years) with proven leadership skills may apply.
• Experience formulating operational budgets is highly preferred.
• Experience building and managing a team of highly engaged employees is critical to the success of this role.
• Experience with HVAC Systems, boiler equipment, or other mechanical systems is preferred.
• Experience working in an agricultural industry and/or live production environment is highly preferred.

• Given the responsibilities within this production environment, the ideal candidate will reside near the facility.

• Bilingual in Spanish and English is preferred.
• A valid state driver’s license is required.

• Core business hours:
  Monday - Friday. Start and end times may vary.
• Evenings, weekends and holidays as needed.

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