Feed Mill General Manager

Job Description:

Feed Mill General Manager is responsible for overseeing the production, quality, costs, and safety of the mill which produces feed for animals. meeting or exceeding regulatory compliance ( e.g. USDA, GMP’s OSHA, Environmental, etc.)

Essential duties:

• Review production records, Oversees all feed production and delivery activities
• Schedule feed production
• Keep inventory of feed ingredients and order as needed
• Test and review feed/grain quality
• Schedule employee shifts and keep track of employee time
• Handle customer questions and complaints
• Evaluate operating procedures
• Set quality assurance standards
• Prepare and monitor monthly, quarterly and yearly budgets
• Stay up to date on new technology and ways to make process improvements
• Train new employees and provide development opportunities
• Ensure all employees are trained on safety and continue to stay up to date
• Maintain filling equipment and other equipment needed to perform duties such as loaders, scales etc.
• Work with company nutritionist and related vendors to ensure high quality, cost effective, and value[1]added feed products.
•  Understand and ensure compliance with all transportation, environmental, and feed production regulations and policies.
• Focus on biosecurity, efficiency, value, and timeliness
• Monitors all feed production equipment, facility, and truck maintenance and repairs
• Maintains all required records and documentation related to production, drug/supplement usage and feed transportation.
• Provide information and recommendations to upper management related to feed production/transport, and related cost reductions opportunities

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Three to five years’ experience in feed mill and management.
• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build a strong team  
• Familiar with livestock production and transportation
• Efficient in calculations, cost/benefit analysis and complex scheduling methods
•  Individual must be dedicated, motivated, and able to work independently
•  Basic computer skills
• Valid driver’s license and insurable under company guidelines o May be required to obtain a CDL •
• Work well with livestock customers and mill personnel

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Resolves routine problems with discrepancies that arise while performing daily tasks.
• Manages multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and prioritizes work accordingly.
• Applies basis reasoning skills and carries out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret data and draw logical conclusions based on the available inputs.
• Applies critical thinking skills in standardized situations as well as non-routine problems.

Safety Skills

• Follow Standard Operating Procedures and adhere to safety requirements as well as Animal Welfare Compliance
• Must wear required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

Physical requirements:

• Frequently uses visual skills to read numbers and details in small print as well as to read computerized data.
• Frequently talks and receives auditory information.
• Frequently uses fine finger and hand manipulation skills to pick up and move paperwork as well as to operate the computer.
• Walk in and on the outside of the facility continuously.
• Must be able to withstand hot and cold temperatures and wet environments
• Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, stand and walk for long periods of time.