Gilt Developer Unit Lead- Rosewood presso Pipestone

Objective: The “GDU Lead” owns every detail that affects the gilt from the day she walks off the trailer into quarantine until the day a catheter is inserted.   

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Overall management of GDU including but not limited to:
  • Maximize Feed Intake
  • Feeder management – daily adjustments
  • Minimize stress events
  • Water – flow and availability
  • Feed ration management
  • Ventilation Management
  • Environment assessment - laying patterns, humidity, cleanliness
  • Set temp vs. actual
  • Air – flow, speed, and exchange
  • Controller knowledge
• Health Management
  • Threshold communication
  • Treatment identification
  • Medication/vaccination schedule execution
• Overall Flow Management
  • Weekly targets – mortality, removals, HNS
  • Replacement rate, selection rate and timing
  • Stocking density/square footage
  • Nursery management
  • Intensive monitoring
  • Incoming preparation
• Inventory and Record Keeping
  • Weekly inventory tracking
  • Daily movements into gestation barn, HNS events, mortality, and culls
  • Gilt Entry Protocol – ear tagging and recording within 7 days of arrival
• GDU Snapshot
  • Heat detection
  • Boar exposure management
• HNS row management.
• Understanding breed eligible targets.

MARGINAL FUNCTIONS

Depending on layout/size of farm – may cross over time/labor in gestation barn or other areas of the farm.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

Education:               High School Diploma or GED Preferred

Experience:              1 year pig experience preferred

Training:                  Completion of Pipestone Emerging Leader - GDU

Work

   Environment:       Agricultural swine environment in rural area

Noise levels that require hearing protection in some areas

Gestation, farrowing, and small swine care processes

Physical

   Requirements:      Standing, walking and ability to be on feet 8 to 10 hours per day

Frequent bending, reaching, squatting and kneeling

Frequent use of one or both hands/arms to grasp or pull

Frequent lifting of objects weighing 3-20 pounds

Occasional bending while pulling and/or lifting objects weighing up to 50 pounds, or requiring up to 50 pounds of force to move

Occasional bending while pulling and/or lifting objects weighing up to 100 pounds or requiring up to 100 pounds of force to move with the assistance of another person as needed

Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Must be able to print and/or write legibly

Additional

Requirements:        Must be able to work minimum of every third weekend

Must have reliable transportation to get to work and attend meetings