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...