Health & Animal Care Associate (Carlyle, IL)

The Health and Animal Care Associate is responsible for implementation of the animal care training and auditing programs and provides support for the Herd Veterinarian. This role works collaboratively with operations and support departments to ensure consistent implementation of standards that safeguard the health and well-being of our animals. This position conducts investigations and supports the development of programs to enhance health and care practices.

Duties & Functions :

• Perform proactive, acute, and endemic disease health visits with a focus on clinical data collection, diagnostic sample collection and submission, and accurate reporting to the Herd Veterinarian to support intervention strategy decision making.
• Develop and execute regional audit plans for biosecurity, animal care and handling, food safety, truck wash and transport audits.
• Support system animal care, health, biosecurity, and safety programs.
• Analyze and effectively communicate audit results to determine compliance deficiencies, potential root cause and propose intervention countermeasures to improve performance through follow-up coaching and training.
• Develop and conduct training to improve health, biosecurity, safety, and animal care outcomes
• Ensure compliance with industry animal care and food safety programs (PQA, TQA) using a variety of training methods including large group, individual, webinar, and online training.
• Provide support for maintaining Breed-to-wean, wean-to-market, transport, and truck wash standard operating procedures.
• Establish foundational knowledge of BTW, WTM, and Transport Operations to ensure alignment with operational needs and processes.
• Lead animal care investigations ensuring thorough documentation of incident details, identification of contributing factors or root cause, and documentation of corrective action.
• Provide coaching and recommendations to production leadership to ensure animal care incidents receive corrective and disciplinary action that is appropriate and consistent with animal care policies.

Minimum Qualifications :

Education

Associate’s Degree required; Bachelor’s Degree preferred

Animal Science, Agriculture Business, Veterinary Technician or related field

Experience

3 years in livestock production or animal health; 3 additional years may be substituted for the Bachelors degree

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Compensation :

Targeted pay range of $55,943 - $64,335 USD annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Benefits :

The Maschhoffs offers full-time regular employees a comprehensive benefits package including :

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