Job Purpose and Impact

Poultry Veterinarian is responsible for ensuring the health, biosecurity and animal welfare and performance KPIs, control in the production (broiler) farms and slaughter plant . In this role, you will be supervising, coaching, training and guiding technical teams, employees and partners to ensure established goals are achieved for the production quality and food safety requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Monitor animal health and quality through compliance with the biosecurity systems and animal welfare based on customer requirements
• Describing, designing and validating processes related to biosecurity, medication use, vaccination, testing and animal welfare
• Evaluate vaccination through laboratory results and supporting adjustments to vaccination programs when necessary, considering local and seasonal challenges and health status on production farms
• Ensure that the medication program is correctly implemented and properly monitored
• Ensure compliance with biosecurity procedures and ensure training of associates and internal and external stakeholders to ensure animal safety and quality
• Diagnose the health of live animals when abnormal symptoms arise and make corrective actions and recommendations in writing
• Independently handle complex poultry veterinary issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctor of veterinary medicine - in poultry
• Experience interacting with various internal and external stakeholders, regulatory agencies, facility leaders, plant personnel or consultants
• Knowledge of food safety, occupational safety and health standards and environmental regulations and poultry nutrition
• Flexibility to work in various locations including non-standard working hours
• Ability to work in English and Polish on a daily basis
• Experience in people management