Feed Mill Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing existing operations, crops, livestock, staff, and financial documents and recommending improvements.
• Preparing plans and schedules for planting and harvesting and ensuring staff understand expectations.
• Visiting the different divisions to inspect crops, livestock, and also perform tests on soil and water.
• Ensuring seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other supplies are regularly restocked.
• Scheduling repairs, maintenance, and replacement of equipment and machinery.
• Handling the marketing and sale of products produced on the farm like fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, and grain.
• Ensuring all staff adhere to health and safety regulations.
• Assisting with the recruitment and training of new staff members.
• Collaborating with senior staff to prepare budgets and financial reports.
• Building professional networks and keeping abreast of developments in agricultural science.
• Undertake practical activities, such as driving tractors, operating machinery, feeding livestock or spraying fields
• Plan activities for trainee staff, mentoring and monitoring them
• Maintain and monitor the quality of yield, whether livestock or crops
• Understand the implications of the weather and make contingency plans
• Make sure products are ready for deadlines, such as auctions and markets
• Ensure that farm activities comply with government regulations
• Develop and ensuring adherence to standard operative procedures,
• Monitor animal health and welfare, including liaising with vets
• Maintain knowledge of pests and diseases and an understanding of how they spread and how to treat them
• Keep financial records up to date

Requirements:

• A minimum of a BSc in Animal Nutrition
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in fish feed production

Expectation:

• Feed conversion ratio FCR 1.2 :1
• Line utilization of 95%
• Wastage 0.0001%
• Idle time 5%
• Gross Operating Profit Per kg - 40% of selling price          
• Total Operating cost per kg – 70% of selling price
• Market Penetration Index (MPI)
• Customer Satisfaction

Remuneration: NGN 250,000 monthly