Swine Nutritionist Associate

About the role:

AMVC Nutritional Services is seeking an innovative and motivated individual to provide the following:

• Lead ingredient procurement and sourcing efforts for owned and managed feed mills
• Provide pricing oversight and support of scheduling of ingredients
• Support feed desk personnel with troubleshooting and logistical questions
• Support the review of toll milling performance and partnerships
• Support feed ordering and delivery programs and solutions
• Support nutritionist with literature reviews, data mining, and background information to make feeding program decisions
• Support nutritionist with feed program design, slat level support, and boardroom to boardroom discussions
• Support relationships with existing AMVC Nutritional Services customers and aid in fostering growth opportunities with new customers
• Role will have full support and assistance from AMVC’s Swine Nutrition, Production, and Veterinary Teams

Who you are:

• Possess a B.S. or M.S. in Animal Science or Nutrition with a focus in swine
• Exhibit superb organizational, time management, and multi-tasking ability
• Have a high-level understanding of feed program design, feed mill and delivery logistics, and on-farm protocols and practices
• Understand to support on-farm and feed mill level production travel over-night travel will occur ~5 to 10% of the time and local day travel will occur ~10 to 20% of the time
  • Additionally, there will be associated travel with participation in swine nutrition/production conferences and forums
• A preference to live within commuting distance of Audubon, IA to based out of our Nutritional Services Office
  • Daily work schedule and working in the office/remotely can be flexible depending on

About AMVC Nutritional Services:

Our mission is to professionally design, deliver, and execute industry leading feeding programs that provide our customers and clients the greatest advantage and control over the greatest expense of raising a pig. AMVC Nutritional Services provides services from feed program formulations and models to on-farm level support and coaching. Our boardroom to slat level design process and approach allows us to deliver custom feeding programs that work and do not just look good on paper. Our team and pig first approach ensure full synergism among health, logistics, genetics, economics, animal care and nutrition. Today, we provide nutritional oversight to over 160,000 sows and 2 million market pigs per year.

About AMVC:

Our vision is to be an industry leader in livestock production by providing management, veterinary, nutritional, marketing, and employee expertise that supports animal welfare, environmental stewardship, quality and traceability of meat products, and the sustainability of livestock production. At AMVC, we are solution-driven analytical people that are enthusiastic about agriculture and feeding a growing population. Our family culture and community centricity enable us to add value to all our customers and clients through fair and honest business dealings.

What you will enjoy:

• Competitive compensation (annual salary)
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K with company match
• Work transportation compensation
• Technology compensation (i.e., laptop provided and phone stipend)