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Career Details : First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Animal Husbandry Workers

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Description

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of animal husbandry workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same animal husbandry work as the workers they supervise.

Experience

Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Education

Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.

Tasks

  • Treats animal illness or injury, following experience or instructions of veterinarian.
  • Trains workers in animal care, artificial insemination techniques, egg candling and sorting, and transfer of animals.
  • Confers with manager to discuss and ascertain production requirements, condition of equipment and supplies, and work schedules.
  • Monitors eggs and adjusts incubator thermometer and gauges to ascertain hatching progress and maintain specified conditions.
  • Transports or arranges for transport of animals, equipment, food, animal feed, and other supplies to and from worksite.
  • Prepares animal condition, production, feed consumption, and worker attendance reports.
  • Recruits, hires, and pays workers.
  • Notifies veterinarian and manager of serious illnesses or injuries to animals.
  • Observes animals, such as cattle, sheep, poultry, or game animals, for signs of illness, injury, nervousness, or unnatural behavior.
  • Assigns workers to tasks, such as feeding and treating animals, cleaning quarters, transferring animals, and maintaining facilities.
  • Oversees animal care, maintenance, breeding, or packing and transfer activities to ensure work is done correctly, and to identify and solve problems.
  • Inseminates livestock artificially to produce desired offspring and to demonstrate techniques to farmers.
  • Studies feed, weight, health, genetic, or milk-production records to determine feed formula and rations or breeding schedule.
  • Requisitions equipment, materials, and supplies.
  • Plans and prepares work schedules.
  • Inspects buildings, fences, fields or range, supplies, and equipment to determine work to be done.

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    • Job-Required Social Interaction
    • Supervise, Coach, Train Others
    • Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
    • Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
    • Responsible for Others' Health & Safety

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