Pig Unit Manager
Location
milton keynes, buckinghamshire
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Primary Industry
Posted
June 08, 2026
We're recruiting a Pig Unit Manager for a farm in Milton Keynes, MK17.
The high-welfare, bio-secure unit, a Red Tractor-assured farming enterprise, comprises a 1500-sow contract GMU pig unit.
The pig unit is based on a 70-acre farm that also has sheep and cattle.
The pig unit comprises 3 adjoined sheds. The pigs are on concrete, straw-bedded, and fed with an automated feeder on the front of a JCB, and the bedding is done with a straw chopper on a tractor.
Job description:
- Day-to-day running of all pigs
- Ordering food each week
- Appropriate vaccinations
- AI of the pigs every 2 weeks, with a second member of staff for extra help
- Scanning the pigs on the appropriate rotations, a scanning person comes every 4 weeks
- Some computer work is required, including uploading pig information
- Movement licences in and out
- Nose rin...