Gilt Developer Unit Lead - Thunder Ridge

OBJECTIVE: The “GDU Lead” owns every detail that affects the gilt from the day she walks off the trailer into quarantine until the day a catheter is inserted.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Overall management of GDU including but not limited to:

• Maximize Feed Intake
• Feeder management – daily adjustments
• Feed ration management
• Water – flow and availability
• Minimize stress events
• Ventilation Management
• Controller knowledge
• Air – flow, speed, and exchange
• Set temp vs. actual
• Environment assessment - laying patterns, humidity, cleanliness
• Health Management
• Medication/vaccination schedule execution
• Treatment identification
• Threshold communication
• Overall Flow Management
• Nursery management
• Incoming preparation
• Intensive monitoring
• Stocking density/square footage
• Replacement rate, selection rate and timing
• Weekly targets – mortality, removals, HNS
• Inventory and Record Keeping
• Gilt Entry Protocol – ear tagging and recording within 7 days of arrival
• Daily movements into gestation barn, HNS events, mortality, and culls
• Weekly inventory tracking
• GDU Snapshot
• Boar exposure management
• Heat detection
• HNS row management.
• Understanding breed eligible targets.

MARGINAL FUNCTIONS

Depending on layout/size of farm – may cross over time/labor in gestation barn or other areas of the farm.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

Education: High School Diploma or GED Preferred

Experience: 1 year pig experience preferred

Training: Completion of Pipestone Emerging Leader - GDU

Work Environment: Agricultural swine environment in rural area

Noise levels that require hearing protection in some areas

Gestation, farrowing, and small swine care processes

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled