Job Description
Prestage Farms is seeking a Swine Nutrition and Research Assistant to serve as manager to our research farm and provide support for the Swine Nutritionist. Primary responsibilities may include the following, among others:
Responsibilities
- Manage a 4800 head wean to finish research facility
- Assist farm staff with daily pig care as needed
- Support farm staff to ensure high level of accuracy on trials
- QC on data collection procedures
- Maintenance on research feed system and scales
- Assist Swine Nutritionist as needed
- Support responsibility with feed lab staff
- Backup role in feed formulation
- May be asked to help conduct and coordinate field research
- Provide input to the team on ingredient purchasing decisions
Requirements
- Master's degree in swine nutrition or similar field
- Some experience managing/conducting production research...