Dairy Farm Manager Job Vacancy In Accra, Ghana 2013
Dairy Farm Manager
Employment Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Accra, Ghana
Remuneration: 2000 USD (Gross)
Job Description:
1. Production & Management
- Meet the defined production and performance targets for the farm
- Organize (in conjunction with the FIM) all aspects of the management of the farm operation – to include seasonal, weekly and daily operations
- Promote herd health and prevent health problems (e.g. mastitis, bloat, milk fever, grass staggers)
- Ensure that the mating programme is implemented effectively
- Implement the BOFP programme effectively as defined by dairycompany & the farm policy manual
- Maintain timeliness with all farm operations, thus keeping the farmrunning smoothly and up to date
2. Milking and Quality
- Oversee the operation of cowshed (farm dairy) to ensure grade free supply of milk
- Shed & plant hygiene
3. Pasture & Feeding Management:
- Pasture and supplementary feed allocation to ensure adequate cost-effective feeding of stock
- Complete an accurate farm walk with plate meter – understand the skills required to accurately measure herbage mass
- Be able to identify a looming feed deficit or surplus and take appropriate steps to maximise feed utilisation and profit
- Understand how to accurately time supplement use in a grazing system to increase cow days in milk and high milk solids response for every kg fed
4. Financial & Business management
- Participate in the setting of the budgets
- Operate the farm to achieve the budget Farm Working expenses
- Complete reports to the standard and timeframes required
- Awareness of financial position of the business and managing the income / expenditure accordingly.
5. Personnel Management
- Manage all employees in accordance with Farm HR policy and procedures.
- Organise, implement and monitor the staff roster
- Complete company performance review system, identify training and /or development needs and act on them, (including own development). Evaluate training once completed.
6. Asset Management
- Attend to all repairs and maintenance as per the Asset Management Plan
- Effective and efficient use of farm machinery
- Preservation of the business assets
7. Compliance
- Operate the farm to satisfy all Compliance requirements
8. Communication
- Expressing ideas, thoughts and views clearly
- Open and constructive discussions
- Ensuring active listening
- Written communication – completing all reports, paddock books, effluent records, plant machinery checklist e.t.c in readable format using understandable & clear language
9. Leadership
- Accepting accountability/responsibility
- Decision making – both own and supporting other people’s
- Effective team work, helping others complete tasks
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Flexibility
- Professionalism
- Resolves conflicts promptly & fairly
- Self management – setting self goals and achieving them
- Completing tasks to a standard and on time
- Building and maintaining relationships with others – including immediate team,consultants, support staff and suppliers.
- Effective delegation & achieving results through others
- Coaching staff to achieve results
- Use and application of different leadership styles
- Use and application of different leadership styles
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Dairy Technology or its equivalent and have at least five years relevant experience.
- Be innovative, enthusiastic and energetic, able to work with minimum supervision and will possess excellent organizational skills including the ability to multitask under pressure.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills, a pleasant and outgoing personality
- Be self-motivated and team orientated and work to a high level of integrity and accountability, with keen attention to details.
- Have good communication, interpersonal and reporting skills.
- Be Computer literate with hands on working experience in operating Microsoft Office suite specially MS Word and MS Excel.
- Fluency in both oral and written English
If you feel you fit the above role,please send your CV to jobs@alternatedoors.co.ke