Dairy Animal Care Supervisor & Team Lead

University of Wisconsin; United States; On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation and holidays

Retirement benefits

Job summary

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking an Animal Care Supervisor for the Dairy Forage Research Center to lead and develop the Animal Care Technician team, coordinate herd care, and ensure adherence to established protocols. You’ll work closely with training personnel and supervisors to optimize staffing and performance.

Responsibilities include supervising staff, overseeing animal care operations, maintaining equipment certifications, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, with a

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience performing dairy animal care duties in a research, commercial dairy, or agricultural setting, including animal health monitoring, feeding, milking operations, and facility sanitation.
• Experience using herd management software (e.g., BoviSync or similar), employee scheduling systems, and common business software (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Workday or similar) to maintain records, monitor operations, and support workforce management activities.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize, evaluate, and respond to changes in dairy herd performance, milk production, animal health, or overall operational effectiveness.
• Experience leading, coordinating, or directing employees to successfully complete assigned work while adhering to established procedures, schedules, and operational standards.
• Knowledge of regulatory, animal welfare, milk quality, and research compliance standards applicable to dairy operations. (AAALAC, APHIS, PMO, IACUC, etc.)
• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude to diagnose, repair, maintain, or communicate equipment issues affecting dairy operations.

Responsibilities

• Trains animal care and research staff in appropriate practices and standard operating procedures, and schedules employees to ensure proper staffing.
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE employees.
• Oversees animal care operations, reporting animal health and welfare concerns to veterinary staff and reporting any equipment failure or facilities problems to the appropriate staff members.
• Performs duties of Animal Care Technicians such as maintenance and oversight of animal health, performance of tests, animal husbandry, and animal biosafety as needed.
• Ensures proper stock of animal care items, annual certification of HEPA filtered equipment, and hazardous material signage throughout the lab.

Skills

Dairy animal care

Team leadership

Herd health monitoring

Milk production

Record keeping

Education

Education beyond high school

Tools

Herd management software

Scheduling systems

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Workday

Job description

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking an Animal Care Supervisor for the Dairy Forage Research Center to lead and develop the Animal Care Technician team, coordinate herd care, and ensure adherence to established protocols. You’ll work closely with training personnel and supervisors to optimize staffing and performance.

Responsibilities include supervising staff, overseeing animal care operations, maintaining equipment certifications, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, with a