We're recruiting a Pig Unit Manager for a farm in Milton Keynes, MK17.

The high-welfare, bio-secure unit, a Red Tractor-assured farming enterprise, comprises a 1500-sow contract GMU pig unit.

The pig unit is based on a 70-acre farm that also has sheep and cattle.

The pig unit comprises 3 adjoined sheds. The pigs are on concrete, straw-bedded, and fed with an automated feeder on the front of a JCB, and the bedding is done with a straw chopper on a tractor.

Job description:

• Day-to-day running of all pigs
• Ordering food each week
• Appropriate vaccinations
• AI of the pigs every 2 weeks, with a second member of staff for extra help
• Scanning the pigs on the appropriate rotations, a scanning person comes every 4 weeks
• Some computer work is required, including uploading pig information
• Movement licences in and out
• Nose rin...