• Swine Nutrition and Research Assistant

    Prestage (Clinton, NC)


    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

    Requirements

    + 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

     

    Benefits

     

    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