Vacancy title:
Piggery Attendant

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Agricultural Services & Products]

Jobs at:
Njilota Farms

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, September 17 2025

Duty Station:
Zambia | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

To attend day-to-day operations of the piggery and ensure that its clean all the times. Also, to develop and implement management strategies to optimize production and reduce costs. Plan breeding cycles, feeding schedules, and health protocols.

Main Accountabilities

• To oversee overall operations at the piggery & ensure that all pigs are health and well taken of.
• To keep accurate records of the piggery operations (herd performance, breeding, and health)
• To perform excellent Husbandry skills.
• To plan, schedule, and review workload and manpower to make sure targets are being met.
• To oversee feeding, breeding, and farrowing activities.

Manage the farrowing as below:

• Breeding.
• Breeder of breeder’s selection.
• Farrowing
• Replacement stock selection
• Ensure that piglet mortality reduction while maximizing farrowing percentage.

Feed Management as below:

• Ensure that feed wastage is reduced.
• Performance monitoring of fatteners for daily gains, fattening pig days.
• Organizations of the ingredients, ready -made feed.
• Feed formulations and compounding rations.
• Always estimate feed requirements.

Other Duties Includes

• Ensuring pigs have access to food and water
• Walking through the piggery to identify sick or injured birds
• Utilizing proper biosecurity standards when entering and exiting houses
• Maintaining high standards of animal welfare
• Conducting maintenance on the house and watering/heating system as needed
• Cleaning piggery
• Spraying piggery houses with disinfectants and vaccines
• Inspecting piggery for diseases and removing weak and ill from the flock
• Any other responsibilities as assigned

Key Requirements

• Grade 12 certificate or equivalent
• Certificate in Animal Science, Livestock Production, or related field
• Minimum 2 years hands-on experience in poultry
• Strong knowledge of swine diseases, vaccinations, and feeding requirements
• Excellent leadership, communication, and record-keeping skills
• Familiarity with biosecurity and animal welfare regulations
• Ability to work under pressure with very minimal supervision but meeting the targets
• Previous Pig farm experience and pig farm working knowledge
• Should be able to organize, supervise and manage the labour force effectively so as to extract maximum efficiency out of them.
• Preferably the prospective should be from Western Province

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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