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Job Title: Livestock / Lairage Assistant
Location: Llanidloes
Department: Livestock / Lairage
Reports to: Livestock Manager
Hours: Full-time.
Early starts, weekends, evenings, and some bank holidays required to meet seasonal demand. Being contactable and flexible with working hours is essential.
About The Role
We are looking for a hands-on and reliable Livestock / Lairage Assistant to support our Livestock Manager with the smooth running of our lairage & livestock operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Day-to-day oversight of lairage operatives and operations, relevant training documents, allocate tasks, monitor performance, and ensure welfare checks, penning, and cleaning are completed to standard daily.
- Liaise with farmers and hauliers regarding deliveries.
- Livestock record keeping.
- In the event of being short staffed, being able to cover all areas of lairage is key; full WATOK will need to be obtained along with other roles i.e. stunning / booking in.
- Resolve any issues, with complaints or rejected carcasses, pathology queries, or any discrepancies with documentation/deliveries.
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In the manager's absence on some occasions, you may be required to cover the Livestock Manager in their absence whilst they are on annual leave and attending offsite work commitments.
- Act as the main point of contact for lairage.
- Manage lamb bookings to meet daily/weekly kill plan.
- Liaise with Production/Sales Manager to confirm numbers, and specs required.
- Monitor lamb bookings so lairage capacity and daily sales requirements are met.
- Support with stock reconciliations and internal/external audits and traceability.
- Liaise with farmers and hauliers regarding deliveries.
- Maintain professional relationships with suppliers.
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Essential
- Experience working with livestock, ideally sheep/lambs.
- Experience or confidence to step up and cover a management role when required.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work to tight kill plans.
- Knowledge of animal welfare, lairage operations, livestock, and carcasses legislation live and dead.
- Excellent communication skills for dealing with farmers, hauliers, and internal teams.
- Good IT/admin skills - Excel, email, industry databases.
- Full driving license.
- Flexible to work early starts, evenings, and weekends. Potential call out to site out of hours. On farm visits and lamb grading/selection will be required as well as any on farm follow ups.
- Previous supervisory or team leader experience.
- Good knowledge of disease restrictions, biosecurity, and livestock movement licensing laws.
- Abattoir / red meat processing experience.
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