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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