Brooding Technician
2025-12-10T14:02:42+00:00
Backbone feeds Uganda Limited
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LUWERO
Uganda
00256
Uganda
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Management, Animal Care, Farming & Outdoors, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products
2025-12-17T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
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We're seeking an experienced Brooding Technician / Brooding Farm Management to oversee our poultry Brooding operations. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Brooding management,and techniques and will be offered an opportunity to go for a further training for about two month in our main entities located in Tanzania to enhance more knowledge in management.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Brooding Technical Management
- Adjust and maintain temperature, humidity, ventilation, and lighting according to brooding standards.
- Inspect day-old chicks, oversee placement, initial feeding, and early-stage health management.
- Monitor performance parameters such as uniformity, body weight, and mortality.
- Conduct routine inspections and identify abnormal behaviors or health issues.
- Implement vaccination programs, deworming plans, and health protocols.
- Ensure feed quality, water supply, and environmental hygiene meet biosecurity requirements.
2. Production and Operations Management
- Execute brooding production plans to meet quantity, cycle, and performance targets.
- Supervise staff operations, including feeding, cleaning, disinfection, and equipment handling.
- Manage brooding equipment such as heaters, ventilation systems, and drinker lines.
- Maintain production records, health logs, medication records, and incident reports.
- Control production costs including feed usage, consumables, and utilities.
3. Staff Management and Training
- Train brooding workers on standard operating procedures.
- Enforce biosecurity rules and ensure compliance across personnel and facility.
- Support performance evaluation, scheduling, and related personnel management tasks.
Requirements:
- Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health, Poultry Science, or related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in chick brooding operations or poultry farm management.
- Solid understanding of brooding parameters, vaccination procedures, and flock management.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to respond to technical issues.
- High sense of responsibility and ability to work in a farm environment.
- Competence in team supervision and staff training (if management duties apply).
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary: Attractive salary package with performance-based incentives.
- Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
If you're a motivated and organized individual looking to support a dynamic team, we'd love to hear from you!
- Adjust and maintain temperature, humidity, ventilation, and lighting according to brooding standards.
- Inspect day-old chicks, oversee placement, initial feeding, and early-stage health management.
- Monitor performance parameters such as uniformity, body weight, and mortality.
- Conduct routine inspections and identify abnormal behaviors or health issues.
- Implement vaccination programs, deworming plans, and health protocols.
- Ensure feed quality, water supply, and environmental hygiene meet biosecurity requirements.
- Execute brooding production plans to meet quantity, cycle, and performance targets.
- Supervise staff operations, including feeding, cleaning, disinfection, and equipment handling.
- Manage brooding equipment such as heaters, ventilation systems, and drinker lines.
- Maintain production records, health logs, medication records, and incident reports.
- Control production costs including feed usage, consumables, and utilities.
- Train brooding workers on standard operating procedures.
- Enforce biosecurity rules and ensure compliance across personnel and facility.
- Support performance evaluation, scheduling, and related personnel management tasks.
- Brooding management techniques
- Temperature, humidity, ventilation, and lighting adjustment and maintenance
- Chicks inspection and placement
- Early-stage health management
- Performance monitoring (uniformity, body weight, mortality)
- Routine inspections and identification of abnormal behaviors/health issues
- Vaccination programs, deworming plans, and health protocols implementation
- Feed quality, water supply, and environmental hygiene management
- Production planning and execution
- Staff supervision
- Brooding equipment management
- Record keeping (production, health, medication, incident reports)
- Production cost control
- Staff training on standard operating procedures
- Biosecurity enforcement
- Performance evaluation and scheduling support
- Analytical capability
- Responsiveness to technical issues
- Team supervision
- Staff training
- Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health, Poultry Science, or related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in chick brooding operations or poultry farm management.
- Solid understanding of brooding parameters, vaccination procedures, and flock management.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to respond to technical issues.
- High sense of responsibility and ability to work in a farm environment.
- Competence in team supervision and staff training (if management duties apply).
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Vacancy title:
Brooding Technician
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Management, Animal Care, Farming & Outdoors, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products]
Jobs at:
Backbone feeds Uganda Limited
Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, December 17 2025
Duty Station:
LUWERO | Uganda | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, December 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
We're seeking an experienced Brooding Technician / Brooding Farm Management to oversee our poultry Brooding operations. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Brooding management,and techniques and will be offered an opportunity to go for a further training for about two month in our main entities located in Tanzania to enhance more knowledge in management.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Brooding Technical Management
- Adjust and maintain temperature, humidity, ventilation, and lighting according to brooding standards.
- Inspect day-old chicks, oversee placement, initial feeding, and early-stage health management.
- Monitor performance parameters such as uniformity, body weight, and mortality.
- Conduct routine inspections and identify abnormal behaviors or health issues.
- Implement vaccination programs, deworming plans, and health protocols.
- Ensure feed quality, water supply, and environmental hygiene meet biosecurity requirements.
2. Production and Operations Management
- Execute brooding production plans to meet quantity, cycle, and performance targets.
- Supervise staff operations, including feeding, cleaning, disinfection, and equipment handling.
- Manage brooding equipment such as heaters, ventilation systems, and drinker lines.
- Maintain production records, health logs, medication records, and incident reports.
- Control production costs including feed usage, consumables, and utilities.
3. Staff Management and Training
- Train brooding workers on standard operating procedures.
- Enforce biosecurity rules and ensure compliance across personnel and facility.
- Support performance evaluation, scheduling, and related personnel management tasks.
Requirements:
- Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health, Poultry Science, or related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in chick brooding operations or poultry farm management.
- Solid understanding of brooding parameters, vaccination procedures, and flock management.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to respond to technical issues.
- High sense of responsibility and ability to work in a farm environment.
- Competence in team supervision and staff training (if management duties apply).
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary: Attractive salary package with performance-based incentives.
- Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
If you're a motivated and organized individual looking to support a dynamic team, we'd love to hear from you!
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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