Technical Field Manager (Maternity Cover)

Avara Foods; Hereford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Car allowance

33 days holiday allowance

6% pension

Private medical self & partner/child

Life assurance

Wellbeing resources and perks

Job summary

Avara Foods seeks a Technical Field Manager to drive improvements in poultry health, welfare and performance across our nationwide operations. The role requires travel to sites and contractors, with Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00 work hours.

This fixed-term contract position emphasizes on-going learning and implementation of welfare initiatives, data-driven decision making, and collaboration with farming partners and farm teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within poultry, agriculture, livestock production or a related farming environment.
• Strong understanding of poultry health, welfare, performance and biosecurity requirements.
• Experience analysing operational performance data, identifying trends and driving continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of farm management practices, water hygiene, cleaning and disinfection standards.
• Experience investigating performance issues and implementing corrective actions.
• Ability to deliver training, workshops and presentations to a range of audiences.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, working collaboratively with farming partners, farm managers and operational teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a geographically dispersed area.
• Proactive, resilient and self-motivated with the confidence to challenge current practices.
• Results-focused with a strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and improve broiler chick outcomes.
• Manage the weekly broiler outcomes data and trigger investigations.
• Collate investigation findings and deliver learnings and improvements.
• Carry out chick start surveys.
• Chair the Broiler outcomes meetings.
• Water hygiene assessments on-farm.
• Deliver water hygiene workshops.
• Monitor and improve broiler reject levels.
• Carry out cleaning and disinfectant surveys.
• Deliver Future of Welfare and Compliance workshops.
• Work alongside broiler CPM team to support farms with welfare KPI’s.
• With the support of regional / production managers deliver advice, protocols and procedure, and systems to ensure compliance with those.
• Utilise external resource to aid in the delivery of continuous and transformational improvement.

Skills

Poultry experience

Data analysis

Training delivery

Stakeholder management

Biosecurity knowledge

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Travel willingness

Job description

Who are we, and what do we do?

You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

Who are we, and what do we do?

You may not have heard of us, but there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed our products. Avara Foods is one of the UK’s leading food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the country’s major supermarkets and well-known restaurants.

We own and manage our entire supply chain, from farms to factory and all the way to the customer door – meaning we have careers that cover a whole range of functions. We have major processing sites across England and Wales, and an agricultural network of over 350 farms, spanning from North Yorkshire to the South Coast and Wales.

About The Role

The role is key in challenging protocol, procedure and operations across all agriculture geographies, chicken and turkey, to identify areas for improvements, driving improved poultry health, welfare and performance and reduce environmental impact.

The role requires travel to our nationwide sites and you would be required to enter and be exposed to the different working environments. As a Technical Field Manager you’ll be working Monday to Friday 08:00 - 17:00 (With the requirement to travel to various Avara sites and to contractors and suppliers).

This opportunity is on a fixed term contract basis.

What will your key responsibilities as Technical Field Manager include?

• Monitor and improve broiler chick outcomes
  • Manage the weekly broiler outcomes data and trigger investigations
  • Collate investigation findings and deliver learnings and improvements
  • Carry out chick start surveys
  • Chair the Broiler outcomes meetings
• Water hygiene champion
  • Carry out on-farm water hygiene assessments
  • Deliver water hygiene workshops
• Monitor and improve broiler reject levels
• Carry out cleaning and disinfectant surveys
• Deliver Future of Welfare and Compliance workshops
• Work alongside broiler CPM team to support farms with welfare KPI’s
• With the support of regional / production managers deliver advice, protocols and procedure, and systems to ensure compliance with those
• Utilise external resource to aid in the delivery of continuous and transformational improvement

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Proven experience within poultry, agriculture, livestock production or a related farming environment.
• Strong understanding of poultry health, welfare, performance and biosecurity requirements.
• Experience of analysing operational performance data, identifying trends and driving continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of farm management practices, water hygiene, cleaning and disinfection standards.
• Experience of investigating performance issues and implementing corrective actions.
• Ability to deliver training, workshops and presentations to a range of audiences.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, working collaboratively with farming partners, farm managers and operational teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a geographically dispersed area.
• Proactive, resilient and self-motivated with the confidence to challenge current practices.
• Results-focused with a strong attention to detail.

The Benefits Of Working For Avara Foods

As Technical Field Manager you will enjoy a secure, supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Car allowance
• 33 days holiday allowance
• 6% pension
• Private medical self & partner/child
• Life assurance
• Various lifestyle benefits, such as cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts from well known retailers, and discounted cinema tickets!
• Wellbeing resources, including free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments.

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

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