SOW REGIONAL MANAGER-JBS LIVE PORK| SOUTHEAST, IA/CENTRAL, IL

Position Title: Regional Sow Manager

Job Status: Salaried

Direct Reports: Sow Farm Employees, Farm Maintenance Personnel

Reports to: Live Pork Sow Production Director

Nature of Position:

The position has accountability for all production and related activities at assigned sow production facilities within the JBS Midwest Region System.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for focusing efforts on the reduction of costs and increasing throughput.
• Assume management of operation in support role for production manager or in his absence.
• Executing yearly production output budgets (weaned pigs), expenses budgets, and necessary capital spending budgets.
• Timely communicate the status of production targets to the Production Manager. Provide a written plan for the overall improvement of production.
• Responsible for facilitating the use of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Responsible for helping train employees on most current processes and protocols.
• Influence changes through education at all levels and then inspect until the new habit is formed.
• Responsible for the actions of their direct reports.
• Facilitate timely actions in response to any external or internal production related audits. This includes audits for the following areas: safety, electricity, maintenance & general housekeeping, swine handling, biosecurity, Common Swine Audits and general production.
• Work in coordination with the site Maintenance Manager to ensure that maintenance, repairs, and cleanliness of the facilities are completed on a timely and thorough basis.
• Responsible for maintaining the data integrity of any company sponsored production record keeping system.
• Ensure that products meet internal and external specifications of pig quality and quality control programs.
• Recommend and implement approved changes to the Sow Farm Manual and SOP’s.
• Assure new employees participate in a training program focusing on standard operating procedures, biosecurity, and safety Job Qualifications. Accomplishing this prior to allowing new hires the ability to work unsupervised. Provide documentation for each employee’s progress.
• Active role in safety program including following safety procedures, enforcement of policy and continued training.
• Responsible for coordination of animal movements including, transport of gilts and wean pig sales.
• Responsible for accurate reporting of Environmental measures according to state and federal guidelines. Communicate any environmental issues/concerns with supervisor.
• Responsible for overall feed management program, including ordering and bin management. Be a teammate to feed department.
• All other duties as may be assigned

Knowledge/Skill Requirements:

• Able to influence the actions and opinions of others in a desired direction; to exhibit judgment in leading others to worthwhile objectives.
• Able to take action in solving problems while exhibiting judgment and a systematic approach to decision making; to identify the important dimensions of a problem, determine potential causes, obtain relevant information, and specify alternate solutions.
• Able to organize or schedule people or tasks, to develop action plans leading to specific goals, and to plan effectively.
• Able to define specific goals and objectives; to prioritize objectives.
• Able to work with people in such a manner as to build high morale and group commitments to goals and objectives.
• Able to establish and carry out specific courses of action for self and/or groups; willing to commit to long hours of work and personal sacrifice in order to reach goals.
• Able to create positive energy (motivation) in both individuals and groups.

Job Qualifications:

• Capable of repeated actions.
• Be responsive to verbal alarms and sounds of animals.
• Able to effectively communicate orally and in writing with other employees and company contacts in English.
• Physically able to move, load and unload animals up to 550 pounds.
• Be able to walk and stand for long periods of time on different surfaces including concrete.
• Will need to be able to climb in and out of crates and over obstacles.
• Maintain balance on all surfaces including slippery surfaces.
• Must not own or live near any swine.

• A minimum of High School Diploma or GED (General Educational Development).