Position: Feed Manager
Overview: Manages the Feed Department to maximize cattle performance, feed efficiencies, and profitability, through successfully directing and coordinating activities of employees who are engaged in the daily feeding of livestock, repair, maintenance, and daily operations of a feed mill and feed delivery.
Essential FunctionsReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Manage, lead, and develop all feed employees.
• Interviews and train new employees through training, then plans, assigns, directs work.
• Directs supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Works closely with consultants to optimize cattle performance and health.
• Monitors feed intakes, bunk conditions, cattle behavior to feed presentation and schedules ration step-up programs, based on variables such as days on feed, gender, weather, breed, etc.
• Reviews daily agenda for pen ships, moves, and transfers.
• Communicates yard issues, i.e., cattle inventory, cattle condition, pen maintenance, safety issues, etc., to appropriate personnel.
• Ensures that newly received and re-implant cattle are fed in a timely manner by coordinating feeding schedule with the cattle department.
• Project capital expenditures for feeding department and prepares and maintains the annual feed department budget.
• Manages expenses by studying historical data, anticipating needs, researching costs, designing inventory systems, determining inventory levels and approving orders.
• Maintains cattle feeding records by compiling, entering, and analyzing information.
• Enters rations into the batching system and creates and enters the feeding schedule before each round of feeding.
• Prepare and follow the preventative maintenance schedule for the feeding department.
• Coordinates with the Yard department on the service schedules of all feeding equipment.
• Prepares and coordinates feeding and milling schedules with the Mill Manager.
• Evaluates personnel for job performance and provides annual performance review, as well as rewarding and disciplining employees and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Ensure housekeeping is maintained in pickups, trucks, and feed office area.
• Ensure compliance with all OSHA/Safety procedures, rules and regulations.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Display consistent skills, behaviors, and attitudes congruent with the values and strategies of Cobalt Cattle Company; model high performing level of motivation, performance and personal integrity that others strive to emulate; match actions and words.
• Understand the organization, strategic objectives, structure; work effectively within the organization to achieve results; work continuously to make linkages and build networks within the organization.
• Match resources, processes, and management style to the demands of the situation; preserve and develop productive capacity while accomplishing immediate and long-term objectives, concentrating on core business.
• Monitor daily implementation of activities, projects, policies and procedures; notice errors and gaps; keep detailed and accurate records; process paperwork promptly and follow up on important details.
• Understand the financial implications of various actions; make effective use of various sources of financial information (e.g., operating reports, spreadsheets, etc.) establish and meet realistic budget goals based on sound cost analysis; take continuous action to control costs while maintaining high quality performance.
• Meet or exceed technical/functional expectations.
• Provide consistent, clear work direction relative to current priorities; delegate and assign work based on employee skill, experience and development needs; monitor work progress against goals; manage conflicting requirements; remove obstacles; instill a sense of urgency relative to task.
• Communicate in an open, straight forward, honest and respectful style; check for message clarity; understand the effect the communication style has on others, including nonverbal communications; plan for and adapt to the wide variety of communication preferences and needs of others.
• Develop an understanding of and assesses group dynamics; take action to enhance the productivity and collaboration among subordinates and peers; create an environment that encourages and reinforces teamwork.
• Assume responsibility for necessary actions or problems resolution; appropriately initiate behavior on projects or initiatives without requiring explicit management direction or guidance; know when management involvement is required and seek it out.
• Keep personal feelings in check; remain impartial; gather relevant data before taking action.
• Deal with others in an honest, ethical and fair manner; act in ways that are consistent with beliefs: openly address conflicts when they arise; provide clear and appropriate reasons for decisions.

Supervisory responsibilities

• Assist with the oversight of all Department Managers

Work environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Frequently required to talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Travel required

•  None

Required Education And Experience

• College Degree with 5 years of successful experience in a cattle feeding environment.
• Animal husbandry skills, knowledge of cattle breeds and characteristics.
• Previous supervisory or management experience.
• A good understanding of OSHA/HACCP guidelines is needed as well as an understanding of a cattle accounting system.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software, Spreadsheet software, accounting software, and Internet software.
• Strong MS Office experience and proficiency with developing and using spreadsheets and/or databases.

Work authorization/security clearance requirements
Cobalt Cattle Company participates in E-Verify. You must be authorized to work in the United States.
Affirmative Action/EEO statement
Cobalt Cattle Company, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer
Note: Specific statements in each section of this Job Description are not intended to be an all-inclusive explanation of work to be performed. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully. Nothing in this document restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Employees are expected to perform any and all duties as assigned to the levels expected by management. This job requires regular and predictable attendance. The Employee’s signature below is only an acknowledgment of receipt and understanding of the job description and in no way alters the Employee’s “at will” employment, and neither implies nor constitutes a contract of employment for a definite period of time.