Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Field Operations Manager oversees multiple field teams and their supervisors at customer farms. The role coordinates daily work, conducts field evaluations and audits, monitors performance, and helps teams meet quality, safety, biosecurity, and animal welfare standards. This is a hands-on leadership position that develops supervisors, builds customer relationships, and improves the systems needed to support future growth.

Essential Functions

Field leadership and operational coordination

• Report to the shop at 4:15 a.m., Monday through Friday, unless directed otherwise; work Saturdays as needed to support operations.


• Direct assigned supervisors and teams to complete daily Vaccination, Moving, and Sorting work efficiently and to established service standards.


• Perform daily field evaluations with designated teams, monitor performance, address execution concerns, and communicate issues to the Operations Manager.


• Prepare the weekly work schedule in the Operations Manager's absence; coordinate upcoming spike moves with the Transportation Manager and Operations Manager.


• Support appropriate staffing for each team, coordinate daily tools and equipment with office staff, and fill in for a supervisor, specialist, or crew member as needed.

Quality, biosecurity, animal welfare, and safety

• Conduct quality, procedural, and biosecurity audits across Moving, Vaccination, and Sorting services; update audit reports promptly upon completion.


• Monitor quality control standards, correct gaps with supervisors, and reinforce proper bird handling and animal welfare practices.


• Enforce biosecurity measures and company policies; encourage safe work practices and promptly address or escalate unsafe conditions.


• Implement and oversee effective training programs; assist in developing and enforcing standard operating procedures to create consistent field practices.

Supervisor development and team performance

• Evaluate supervisors consistently and conduct quarterly reviews; review each team member's performance and skills quarterly with the supervisor.


• Coach supervisors on crew leadership, accountability, training, and daily execution; identify development needs and follow through on agreed improvements.


• Identify and disciple emerging leaders for Team Lead, Supervisor, and other future roles, using Duck's mission, vision, and core values as a guide.

Customer relationships and vaccine inventory

• Build professional relationships with customers, growers, and vendors; communicate service concerns and coordinate solutions with operations leadership.


• Track customer-specific vaccine inventory and order vaccine when necessary to maintain appropriate stock levels for scheduled work.

Process improvement and growth

• Identify and carry out approved improvements to workflow, equipment, quality, and productivity, including equipment projects such as a wheel unloader mechanism.


• Help develop repeatable operating practices that support additional teams, consistent execution, and future growth.

Other Responsibilities

Support operational priorities and perform other related duties assigned by the Operations Manager. Work within delegated authority and escalate decisions that require additional approval.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to lead multiple teams through supervisors, communicate expectations clearly, coach employees, and hold teams accountable.


• Strong organization, problem solving, and follow-through; ability to coordinate changing field priorities and customer requirements.


• Ability to evaluate performance, complete audit reports, manage inventory information, and translate findings into practical improvements.


• Ability to learn and enforce poultry service procedures, safety, biosecurity, and animal welfare standards while maintaining a consistent field presence.


• Dependability for early starts, travel to assigned farms, and Saturday work when operational needs require it.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supervising poultry, agricultural, vaccination, moving, sorting, or similar field operations.


• Experience developing supervisors, conducting operational audits, managing vaccine inventory, or improving field processes.

Work Setting and Physical Requirements

Work is performed primarily at customer farms, in poultry houses, and in other agricultural or shop settings. The role requires regular travel between assigned locations, observation of field work, and hands-on support of team duties when needed. Work may involve standing, walking, bending, bird handling, and equipment use in varying environmental conditions while following required safety and biosecurity practices, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.

Key Working Relationships

Works with the Operations Manager, assigned team supervisors and crew members, specialists, the Transportation Manager, office staff, customers, growers, and vendors.

Compensation and Benefits

• Performance-based biannual bonus program; year-end bonus eligibility based on the average score of biannual bonuses.


• Paid time off: 15 vacation days and eight paid holidays, totaling 23 paid days off. Holidays are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.


• Company-paid healthcare benefit through HipNation for primary care and Sedera for larger healthcare needs, subject to program terms. Tobacco use fees are not paid by Duck's Poultry.


• 401(k) eligibility after one year of employment, with up to a 4% company match when participating, subject to plan terms. Company vehicle provided.