MI - Pullet/Production Internship at Herbruck's… · Location…

Grow With Us: Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch’s Summer Internship Program is a paid, 12-week opportunity that offers a fully real-world experience for students early in their careers who are considering a career in agriculture. Throughout the summer, you will apply what you learn in class to real-world situations and build project management, problem-solving, and communication skills. With service-learning opportunities, community outings, field experience, and professional development lunch-and-learns, you’ll grow with more than 1,100 team members as we care for our 10 million hens, which annually provide nearly 3 billion delicious, nutritious eggs produced responsibly and ethically.

Your Role: As a Pullet and Production Intern, you will partner with members of our Flock Service, Manure, Maintenance, and Service Crew to develop a deep understanding of one of Herbruck’s pullet and layer sites and how it operates across Herbruck’s 10 locations in Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Your responsibilities will include analyzing production input and output data, developing detailed project scopes, leading project kick-offs, curating and updating project timelines, streamlining farm site organization, inspecting for continuous improvement, championing on-site safety and compliance, and overseeing project closeout and reporting.

You will support Project Management:

• Contribute to the production team to ensure they achieve project schedules, budgets, and production goals.
• Manage incremental improvement projects in a timely and accurate manner, monitoring overall project progress against the project scope and available resources. Participate in estimating the time, resources, and personnel to complete a project.
• After analyzing production input and output data, create the project work scope with the Production Farm Manager and maintain the overall project schedule and timeline. Participate in project kick-off and execute the project work plan. Monitor and alert the project team to changes in project scope, and update schedules promptly.
• Alert the Production Farm Manager to changes that could affect the project scope, schedule, or completion. Help coordinate and schedule any compliance or safety audits during the project.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

You will problem-solve:

• Keep the farm organized throughout the project. Help coordinate and supervise production activities. Create and maintain daily production reports.
• Review farm conditions and any effect they may have on other disciplines (including construction, maintenance, manure, flock service, compliance, and service crew).
• Prepare, schedule, and report on project close-out.

You’ll Communicate and Network:

• Collaborate with various disciplines throughout Herbruck’s. Regularly communicate with Pullet and Production Managers, Supervisors, Compliance, and Bird Crew to create, update, and understand any changes to project design, scope, schedule, and budget.
• Promote safety, encourage safe work practices, and immediately rectify site hazards. Support safety and compliance training by addressing safety audit findings and helping create and update compliance training at Herbruck’s University.
• Attend daily supervisor stand-up meetings, compile and communicate action items from across the farm.
• Assist the Pull and Production Manager with other communication, including project photography and documentation, data collection and analysis, and office administrative work.
• Understand what the deliverable needs to be to meet project needs, what it takes to make projects successful, and communicate this to Herbruck’s leadership at the close of your summer.

Your Qualifications:

• Your Education: You’re enrolled in a program related to agriculture such as Animal Science, Poultry Science, Poultry Management, or Agribusiness.
• Your Experience: Ideally, you’ve worked in an agricultural environment previously, whether a small family farm or a more sophisticated operation. Otherwise, work experience dealing with animals, people, or machinery can prepare you well for Herbruck’s. Please note that, due to biosecurity regulations, you cannot own or contact birds or swine while interning with Herbruck’s.
• Your Technical Skills: Ideally, you have some mechanical aptitude and maintenance experience.
• Your Competencies:
  • Action-Oriented: You take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
  • Communicate Effectively: You develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
  • Nimble Learning: You actively experiment when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
  • Resourcefulness: You secure and deploy resources effectively and efficiently
  • Self-development: You actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.