Maple Leaf Foods

POULTRY VETERINARIAN

Veterinarian of Poultry

• The Veterinarian of Poultry’s role is to take care of the health, safety, and quality of all the live operations and industry activities related to poultry. They will support the teams that work on quality assurance, lab, animal health and welfare, and industry issues. Our Quality Assurance and Veterinary Programs are leading the industry in: Improving hatchability, Quality results, Breeder performance, Troubleshooting protocols.

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life (Essential functions and skills but not limited to):

• Deliver technical services and guidance for poultry health. These include: preventive medicine, diagnostic methods, vaccination program, animal welfare and auditing programs, antibiotic strategies, laboratory operations.
• Guide bird husbandry
• Guide hatchability and incubation issues
• Provide technical guidance for chick health
• Assist in the creation of the required nutritional feed programs
• Deliver advice and help to the ON Maple Leaf Live Ops facilities
• Deliver training as needed throughout the organization
• Support MLF initiatives including animal welfare, antimicrobial use, and food safety
• Provide oversight to third party veterinary services serving Ontario producers
• Provide customer service support: Chick Customer Complaint Process, field visits, post-mortem services, as needed
• Create and implement proactive food safety programs to influence industry overall
• Provide a proactive approach to antibiotic use, preventing antibiotic resistance
• Support programs marketing initiatives such as Raised without Antibiotic, genetics initiatives, bird health, feed programs, and other new initiatives

What You’ll Bring:

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; eligible for licensure in the appropriate province
• Experienced and/or specialized in poultry, certified by ACPV
• Laboratory skills
• Effective communication skills
• Professional, objective, action oriented, team player
• Self-motivated with excellent problem solving ability
• Advanced computer skills required

 

Applications to this position can be emailed to: nancy.massey@mapleleaf.com.