Boar Stud Swine Technician in Osceola, Iowa at Passel Farms

Looking for good people, great teams, and a hands-on career contributing to healthy hog production?! The Boar Stud Swine Technician position is open in Osceola, Iowa!

Position Summary: The Boar Stud Technician is responsible for caring and feeding the boars and maintaining the barn environment for optimal collection. Night shift from 8pm-4am, weekdays and alternating weekends.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitors and maintains environment (alarms, ventilation, temperature, etc.).
• Helps maintains boar area, culls, and waste management.
• Helps maintain feed schedules, feeder adjustments, waterers and watering, handles and moves animals.
• Observes animal condition, monitors proper body condition, treats and vaccinates per protocol.
• Training and collection of boars.
• Participate in weekend rotation duties as assigned.
• Keeps boar records and other necessary paperwork.
• Works cooperatively with farm manager and staff.
• Cleans/power washes equipment and barn.
• Collects timely and accurate boar data and completes related records.
• Follows strict bio-security guidelines.
• Pressure washes collection area.
• Monitors supplies; advises farm manager of needs; makes purchases at best cost as approved by farm manager.
• Assists in and ensures proper and safe operation and maintenance of equipment/machinery used in collection barn and proper handling/moving animals.
• Reviews and approves invoices for materials and products used.
• Maintains PQA+ certification.
• Completes Barnvista safety training timely.
• Follows all Animal Welfare policies and practices and informs management of any violations by staff.
• Follows bio-security measures according to Bio-Security Policy, including animal movement, visitor access, sanitation, and disease prevention measures.
• Follows all safety rules and practices and ensures others do the same.
• Supports, promotes, and adheres to policies, procedures, and values of Passel Farms and industry standards.
• Regular, punctual and consistent attendance is essential for this position.
• Other duties as may be assigned to fulfill responsibilities of this position and support team goals.

Qualifications: Previous swine experience of 1 year is preferred, but not required. Able to work with a variety of personalities and live animals. Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate equipment; reach with hands. Frequent lifting of objects weighing 3-70 pounds. Frequent bending, reaching, squatting, stooping, and kneeling. Ability to do repetitious arm movements. Must be able to do bending, stooping and squatting. Able to lift/pull 50 pounds of force to move an object with or without the assistance of another person. Work Environment: This position works in a bio-secure shower-in/shower-out boar stud operation that includes live animals, animal housing, semen collection areas, and laboratory processing spaces. The role requires regular presence in barn and lab environments and adherence to strict biosecurity and sanitation protocols. Work schedules are generally evening hours but may include mornings, weekends, or holidays based on semen production schedules and operational needs. Conditions may vary due to seasonal temperature changes and production demands.