Job description

Dairy Managers oversee daily operations in a dairy production unit. Common job duties of a Dairy Manager are maintaining milking equipment, taking care of herds, treating sick animals, assisting difficult births, maintaining records, and allocating budgets. Based on our collection of resume samples for Dairy Managers, the most sought-after skills for this position are dairy production knowledge, stamina, resilience, communication and interpersonal skills, time management, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Their job duties include maintaining milking equipment, taking care of herds, treating sick animals, assisting difficult births, maintaining records, allocating budgets, reviewing inventory of dairy products and supplies to ensure that there is enough stock to meet demand, monitoring milk production levels to ensure that there is enough supply to meet customer demand, ensuring that all safety procedures are followed when handling or storing food products, reviewing product quality, including taste tests, to ensure that it meets customer standards, recruiting new staff and ensuring they receive appropriate training, coordinating production activities with procurement, maintenance and quality control activities to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines and equipment, and reviewing and analyzing production, quality control, maintenance and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems 1.

A dairy manager should have the following skills:

Good animal-handling skills and an understanding of animal welfare and health issues.

An understanding of pasture management

Knowledge of the milking process

Knowledge of milk company standards and safe farming practices.

The ability to drive, operate and maintain farm machinery.

Business and accounting skills

An understanding of sustainable environmental management practices.

Knowledgeable of disease and injury treatment and calf pulling.

Knowledgeable in dairy nutrition

Ability to motivate employees

Ability to work with all types of people

Ability to communicate with a broad spectrum of individuals.

Leadership

Animal husbandr Job Duties

Maintaining milking equipment

Taking care of herds

Treating sick animals

Assisting difficult births

Maintaining records

Allocating budgets

Reviewing inventory of dairy products and supplies to ensure that there is enough stock to meet demand.

Monitoring milk production levels to ensure that there is enough supply to meet customer demand.