Assistant Feed Manager

Summary/objective

The Assistant Feed Manager helps manage and oversee the feed department and employees to maximize cattle performance, feed efficiencies, and profitability through successfully directing and coordinating activities of employees who are engaged in the daily feed operations.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Monitors feed intakes, bunk conditions, cattle behavior to feed presentation and schedules ration set-up programs, based on variables such as days on feed, gender, weather, breed, etc.
• Enters rations into batching system, creates and enters feeding schedule before each round of feeding ensuring compliance with all FDA regulations regarding medicated feed and micro ingredients.
• Ensure cattle are fed high quality feed, accurately and with level distribution.
• Reviews daily agenda for pen ships, moves, and transfers.
• Ensure cattle are fed fresh feed and hay at arrival.
• Ensures newly received and re-implant cattle are fed in a timely manner by coordinating feeding schedule with cattle department.
• Communicates yard issues to the appropriate personnel for example, cattle inventory, cattle condition, pen maintenance, and or safety concerns.
• Coordinates and schedules service and preventive maintenance measures for feed equipment.
• Work closely with consultants to optimize cattle performance.
• Manage, lead, and develop all feed employee’s through training, planning and assigning/directing work.
• Active in the interviewing, selecting, and training of new employees utilizing the onboarding and orientation programs.
• Ensures monthly housekeeping is maintained in all areas and equipment.
• Ensure compliance with all OSHA/Safety procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Competencies

• Display consistent behaviors, skills and attitudes congruent with the values and strategies of Cobalt Cattle Company; model high performing level of motivation, performance and personal integrity that others strive to emulate; match actions with words.
• Monitor daily implementation of activities, projects, policies and procedures; notice errors and gaps; keep detailed and accurate records, process paperwork promptly and follow-up on important details.
• Provide consistent, clear work direction relative to current priorities; delegate and assign work based on employee skill, experience and development needs; monitor work progress against goals; manage conflicting requirements; instill a sense of urgency relative to the task.
• Communicate in an open, straight forward, honest and respectful style; check for message clarity; understand the effect the communication style has on others, including nonverbal communications; plan and adapt to the wide variety of communication preferences and needs of others.
• Deal with others in an honest, ethical and fair manner; act in ways that are consistent with company beliefs: openly address conflicts when they arise; provide clear and appropriate reasons for decisions.
  
  
  

Supervisory responsibilities

• Yes 
  
  
  

Work environment

• In this role you will be required to work at times in extreme weather conditions, such as rain, snow, wind, heat, cold.
• Ability to work on-call on occasions, weekends, and holiday.
  
  
  

Physical demands

• Ability to sit/stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to work extended hours 10-12 hours per day.
• This individual must be able to occasionally lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
  
  
  

Travel required

• Minimal
• Travel to additional trainings may be required
  
  
  

Required Education And Experience

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or 1-3 month’s related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience displaying excellent communication and leadership skills are required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) skills are a plus.
  
  
  

Preferred Education And Experience

• Successful experience in a calling feed.
• 2 years supervisory or management experience
• Good understanding of OSHA guidelines is needed as well as an understanding of cattle accounting system.
  
  
  

Work authorization/security clearance requirements

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC participates in E-Verify. You must be authorized to work in the United States.

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC is an equal opportunity employer

Note: Specific statements in each section of this Job Description are not intended to be an all-inclusive explanation of work to be performed.  They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully.  Nothing in this document restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.  Employees are expected to perform any and all duties as assigned to the levels expected by management.  This job requires regular and predictable attendance. The Employee’s signature below is only an acknowledgment of receipt and understanding of the job description and in no way alters the Employee’s “at will” employment, and neither implies nor constitutes a contract of employment for a definite period of time.