Gilt Developer Unit Lead - Four Corners

Job TitleGilt Developer Unit Lead - Four Corners
LocationFour Corners Farms LLC-21007
Full-Time/Part-TimeFull-time
Job Description

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
    • Feed ration management
    • Water – flow and availability
    • Minimize stress events
  • Ventilation Management
    • Controller knowledge
    • Air – flow, speed, and exchange
    • Set temp vs. actual
    • Environment assessment - laying patterns, humidity, cleanliness
  • Health Management
    • Medication/vaccination schedule execution
    • Treatment identification
    • Threshold communication
  • Overall Flow Management
    • Nursery management
      • Incoming preparation
      • Intensive monitoring
    • Stocking density/square footage
    • Replacement rate, selection rate and timing
    • Weekly targets – mortality, removals, HNS
  • Inventory and Record Keeping
    • Gilt Entry Protocol – ear tagging and recording within 7 days of arrival
    • Daily movements into gestation barn, HNS events, mortality, and culls
    • Weekly inventory tracking
  • GDU Snapshot
    • Boar exposure management
    • Heat detection
  • 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.

Req Num23-322