Production Performance Manager

Production Performance Manager (Mountain Region)Position Title: Production Performance ManagerReports To: GM of Production Performance FLSA Status: Salary-Exempt About Us:

Versova is a leader in the production of eggs and egg products, with operations in Ohio, Iowa, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon. Our fully integrated operations raise chicks, young hens, and laying hens. To ensure our eggs are fresh, safe, and wholesome when they reach our customers, we produce and process more than eight billion eggs, annually, right on our farms.

Our farms are committed to the passionate adherence to animal care standards for our flocks. We believe in responsibly operating our farms to help protect the environment, being good neighbors in our communities, and producing the safest, highest-quality eggs for our consumers.

We offer competitive wages, a compensation program with excellent benefits, including 401K, health, dental, Short-Term Disability and life insurance.

Job Summary:

The Production Performance Manager is responsible for the management pullet operations and provide direction and guidance for Layer Operations while working alongside the BUL and Live Production Mangers at designated sites. The purpose of this role is to plan, direct, and oversee flock performance, business concerns, including safety, animal husbandry, personnel management, budget management, cost control, and operating efficiencies. This person will provide management oversight of day-to-day operations and long-term production work, activities, and project work. Oversee areas of animal husbandry, flock management, bird scheduling, and movement. Work to determine feeding recommendations. Work with specialty leaders and teams on activities, projects, and issues that address Production and Pullet personnel, financial, processing, feed management, and other Production matters to ensure strategic and tactical priorities are successfully addressed. The Production Manager will also ensure proper execution of all Production SOPs.

Essential Job Functions:

• Supply the leadership required to motivate employees to work as a team in meeting corporate and production goals and objectives.
• Provide leadership, direction, and development to the production, pullet managers, leaders supervisors.
• Responsible for the daily feeding schedule, availability of water, appropriate ventilation, and proper care of the birds.
• Responsible for general daily cleanliness of the layer houses (interior and exterior)
• Includes proper extraction and disposal of mortality.
• Responsible for coordinating maintenance and repairs of layer facilities (exterior and interior).
• Includes all equipment throughout the layer houses and all ancillary equipment associated with any activity required for the proper functioning of the layer houses (Trucks, Skid Loaders, Tools, etc. )
• Responsible for maintaining rodent, fly, and pest control program.
• Responsible for working with production staff to ensure quality product coming from the layer houses.
• Includes taking all measures to determine and minimize checks originating at any point before entering the processing plant.
• Includes adequate production results as determined by bird strain guidelines and company policies and goals.
• Responsible for working in coordinating with the feed mill to ensure timely feed delivery and proper feed formulation.
• Responsible for the general bird health, including.
• Alerting the GM, Compliance, Corporate Veterinarian and COO of any issues and following the guidance of the veterinarian and / or nutritionist as needed.
• Ensuring availability of yourself or experienced staff during off-hours in case of emergency.
• Working with compliance/veterinarian/nutritionist to ensure proper vaccination and any testing as needed or required.
• Responsible for all required record-keeping as required by management, compliance, scheduling of bird placement in concordance with the pullet facility, scheduling of production staff, and scheduling of production needs as determined by customer demand/management forecast.
• Responsible for ordering and scheduling chick moves in your designated region. You will be required to manage Flock Services (internal and external) This will include chick placement and flock moves. (Vaccinations, housing, depopulation Etc. )
• Stewardship

• Responsible for employee training, documentation, coaching and counseling.
• Promotes a culture of safety
• Maintain compliance with all FDA, EPA, USDA, FSMA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices and SQF Program as well as the SE Prevention, Animal Welfare, and Bio-Security Programs.
• Accountable for the financial stewardship of the operation through the development of a yearly budget and implementing effective systems of control over the operating expenditures of the plant.
• Reviews KPI reports, conducts trend analysis and makes decisions in order to maximize efficiency of the feed mill.
• Preventative Maintenance Programs
• Overseeing the troubleshooting, diagnosing, installation, restoration, and maintenance of equipment
• Ensuring the identification and correction of root cause of repetitive failures
• Ensuring equipment is in safe and good working conditions

• Responsible for proper handling of litter in accordance with company policy and any local, state, or federal regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree Preferred in a related field or commensurate experience.
• 5-7 years' leadership supervisory in previous experience in the daily operations of Live Haul, Feed Haul, and Feed Mill, Breeder, and Broiler production including Hatchery experience preferred. Previous experience in the daily operations of large-scale animal agriculture.
• Bachelor's degree in animal science, Business Management a plus
• Previous experience in the poultry or grow out operations preferred.
• Good Communication (Written / Verbal) skills, organized, goal-oriented, accountable. Good Leadership skills. Must be competent in the Microsoft Office suite of products.
• Bilingual in English Spanish preferred.
• Agile, able to lift 50lbs. Must be able to perform all job duties of processing supervisors. Also, must be able to work in various climate conditions, including extreme cold.
• Must be able to work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.