Poult Scheduler

Willmar Poultry Farms is seeking a full-time Poult Scheduler. An Affiliate of Life-Science Innovations, Willmar Poultry Farms is a commercial grow out company who grows turkeys for various customers, with farms located in the central MN areas.

The Poult Scheduler is responsible for coordinating and managing poult placements from hatchery to farms, ensuring the efficient and timely placement of poults while maintaining strong communication with growers, hatchery personnel, transportation teams, and internal operations. This role plays a critical part in aligning poult supply with production needs, managing placement schedules, developing transportation plans, and responding to changing operational conditions, including disease-related regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate between hatchery operations and growers to efficiently place all poults produced through Headstart Hatching.
• Manage and maintain poult placement schedules, communicating proactively with growers regarding schedule changes, delays, or operational issues.
• Adjust daily poult placement orders based on actual hatch numbers and available poults.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for growers regarding poult placements and related concerns.
• Communicate placement details to growers, including:
• Placement dates
• Number of poults
• Requested services
• Preferred delivery dates and times
• Provide updated placement schedules to growers when hatch results require placements to be advanced or delayed.
• Updating the long-range poult plan based on actual placements and known delays.
• Using the poult planning tool.
• Balance Light Hen (LH)/ Heavy Hen (HH) ratios for each week based on plant requests.
• Once projections are made based on candling, communicate a firmer placement schedule with the farms.
• Placement date, number of birds, services requested and preferred delivery day/time.
• Send this information to hatchery.
• Balance orders with actual hatch numbers each service day and provide updates on placement dates to farms that need to pull up or push back a day.
• In HPAI times, coordinating MPQs, BCAPs and all the other regulatory stuff. Knowing when control zones will drop, etc.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with growers.
• Gather feedback from growers regarding poult quality and performance.
• Collect mortality, weight, and flock performance data when available to support operational analysis and decision-making.
• Address grower concerns and facilitate communication between growers and internal stakeholders.
• Communicate daily with hatchery personnel, growers, transportation providers, and management regarding placement status and operational updates.
• Ensure all stakeholders have accurate and timely information regarding hatch numbers, delivery schedules, and placement plans.
• Identify scheduling conflicts or risks and develop solutions to minimize operational disruptions.

• High School diploma or equivalent preferred
• Previous experience in poultry production, live operations, agricultural scheduling, logistics, transportation coordination, or production planning preferred.
• Previous experience in day-to-day hatchery operations is required.
• Understanding of transportation logistics.
• Familiarity with Excel and M-Tech (Amino).
• Knowledge of biosecurity and animal welfare protocols and industry regulations.
• Knowledge of turkey egg and poult handling procedures.
• Knowledge of poultry production practices and hatchery operations. Strong organizational and scheduling skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Detail oriented, strong multitasking skills and ability to organize dynamic schedules.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Must be able to solve problems in a fast-paced environment.

We are proud to offer a generous benefit package in addition to competitive compensation. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance options, aHealth 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, and company paid life insurance.

Starting wage: $26.74-$33.42