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 trial...