Swine Nutrition and Research Assistant

Prestage Farms is seeking a Swine Nutrition and Research Assistant to serve as manager to our research farm and provide support for the Swine Nutritionist. Primary responsibilities may include the following, among others:

Responsibilities

• Manage a 4800 head wean to finish research facility
• Assist farm staff with daily pig care as needed
• Support farm staff to ensure high level of accuracy on trials
• QC on data collection procedures
• Maintenance on research feed system and scales
• Assist Swine Nutritionist as needed
• Support responsibility with feed lab staff
• Backup role in feed formulation
• May be asked to help conduct and coordinate field research
• Provide input to the team on ingredient purchasing decisions

• Master's degree in swine nutrition or similar field
• Some experience managing/conducting production research trials, including pig care, trial design, and data analysis preferred
• Familiar and capable in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• General agricultural background preferred
• This job requires some night and weekend work

Some Of Our Benefits Include

• Affordable Family Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Short Term Disability
• Savings Account Contributions

For more information on our team here at Prestage Farms click here: https://www.prestagefarms.com/our-team