What are the responsibilities and job description for the PEAK Operations Specialist position at PEAK?
Are you passionate about dairy cattle management and improving reproductive and calf care practices? Join our team as a PEAK Operations Specialist and play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and success of calves created using IVF technologies. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading providers, implement best practices, and drive innovation in calf and dairy management protocols. If you have a strong background in dairy science and a drive for excellence, we want to hear from you!
This role has been created to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with and monitor compliance with PEAK Standard Operating Procedures for all of our PEAK program service providers. The responsibilities within this role will be to support, assist, research, develop, and facilitate best practices and protocols with our PEAK providers to create and maintain live, healthy calves for the PEAK program.
Primary Responsibilities
- Facilitate with PEAK providers to achieve maximal live calf rates for calves created using IVF technologies.
- Work with the current and potential PEAK providers to support, critique and analyze all procedures involved with donor, recipient and calf management to troubleshoot current issues.
- Share knowledge gained between PEAK providers or from outside sources to enhance the PEAK program’s performance.
- Responsible for routine quality assurance audits on the current PEAK protocols in existing PEAK providers.
- Motivate and facilitate Peak providers to achieve standard performance targets.
- Seek out and stay up to date on new technologies, processes and procedures in all aspects of donor, recipient and calf management.
- Assist with PEAK animal movement between PEAK providers and from PEAK providers to PEAK internal or external entities.
- Willingness to travel within the USA
- Strong Passion and understanding of Dairy cattle management with a focus towards reproduction, nutrition, maternity, heifer and calf management programs.
- Strong background and skills in setting up or consulting on maternity and calf care protocols.
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Perform other duties and assume other responsibilities as assigned.
Candidate Profile
Knowledge & Experience
- 5 years of “On the ground” experience working with commercial dairies on all aspects of reproduction, nutrition, vaccination, and calf management programs.
- Strong understanding of IVF and ET practices at the donor, embryo, recipient, and calf levels
Skills & Competencies
- Able to perform critical audits of current and future PEAK providers and communicate with persuasive skills to show value and make the necessary changes.
- Self-starting and self-motivated person to drive the PEAK program forward in protocols and practices used by our PEAK providers.
- Excellent communication, computer, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Able to create, communicate, and monitor successful Standard Operating Procedures.
- Ability and desire to work well in a team environment
- Proficient on using Microsoft Office and Dairy Comp 305 for communication and data analysis
Education
- Bachelor of Science or advanced degree in an Animal Science related discipline
