Poultry Hatchery Field Technical Lead

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TARGAN seeks a Technical Service Manager to provide poultry hatchery and animal-health expertise to customers and internal teams. This field-based role will support adoption, implementation, optimization, and lifecycle performance of poultry technologies with emphasis on hatchery operations and vaccination.

The successful candidate will be a trusted technical partner to hatchery leaders, veterinarians, live-production teams, quality personnel, and commercial stakeholders. 50–70% travel required.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on hatchery expertise including incubation, egg handling, transfer, and vaccination.
• 10+ years of progressive poultry-industry experience, including commercial hatchery work.
• Strong communication, field observation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple customer activities and travel with clear ownership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary hatchery technical-services partner before, during, and after product implementation.
• Lead hatchery assessments of incubation, transfer, egg/chick flow, and vaccination programs.
• Translate observations into practical, evidence-based recommendations for customers.
• Coordinate with Commercial, Engineering, Field Service, and Quality teams; document actions.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Customer communication

Root-cause analysis

Data interpretation

Education

DVM or Ph.D. in Poultry Science, Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science, Biological Sciences, or related

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant discipline with 10+ years poultry-industry experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Teams

CRM / field-service / dashboards

Job description

TARGAN seeks a Technical Service Manager to provide poultry hatchery and animal-health expertise to customers and internal teams. This field-based role will support adoption, implementation, optimization, and lifecycle performance of poultry technologies with emphasis on hatchery operations and vaccination.

The successful candidate will be a trusted technical partner to hatchery leaders, veterinarians, live-production teams, quality personnel, and commercial stakeholders. 50–70% travel required.