Poultry Production Director

Wilcox Farms is a family-owned business that has been in operation for over 100 years, serving as one of the leading organic, free range and pasture egg producers in the Pacific Northwest. Headquartered in Southern Pierce County, we have four manufacturing and sales facilities throughout Oregon, Montana and Washington. Wilcox Farms is a high-growth industry leader, ranked as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the region by the Puget Sound Business Journal. We offer a range of egg products for our retail and foodservice clientele including Certified Humane, Pasture-Raised, Organic, Free Range, and non-GMO options.
We are seeking a Poultry Production Director to lead our team based in Roy, WA. We strive to offer top notch animal welfare practices and elite customer service, with this role overseeing performance at live production layer and pullet facilities in Washington, Oregon, and Montana. You will be responsible for analyzing and generating reports to advise management on best practices and areas to focus on for positive flock performance. Our ideal candidate has experience in animal health and nutrition, a mentor mentality, and is open-minded to customer and local market feedback on innovative production strategies.
We offer a salary of $130,000- 150,000 dependent on education and experience, health, dental, and vision insurance, PTO, 401k and relocation assistance, along with the opportunity to thrive in friendly, family-oriented environment.
What you will be doing:

• Oversee Layer health over three-layer facilities (Roy, WA, Burlington, WA, & Aurora, OR), two pullet facilities (Roy, WA & Shedd, OR), and contract farms in Montana.
  • You will be expected to travel to facilities on a routine basis.

• Develop good Risk Mitigation Practices for the production side of the company by preventing disease to the birds and pathogens to the eggs. Be the company leader in bio-security practices.

• Maintain egg quality program and biosecurity program:
  • Point of Contact for primary vendors and outside nutritionist.
  • Primary, contact with Government agencies as it relates to SE Prevention and Avian Influenza
• Develop and help sustain standards for each phase or activity for free range and pasture production
  • Pullets: Prep & receiving chicks, lighting schedules, vaccination, training the birds to use the system, monitoring flocks, weight, feathering, uniformity, moving birds, cleanout
  • Layers: Biosecurity,pullet introduction to layhouse, lighting & feed schedules, training birds, & floor eggs, house checking/monitoring, maintenance of house equipment, euthanasia, SE controls, cleanout
• Set guidelines and select feed formulas for all flocks in Oregon, Washington, and Montana
• Set guidelines and select feed formulas for all flocks in Oregon and Washington
  • Conduct analysis on flock production and feed conversion, compare versus benchmarks
  • Ensure laboratory samples are being submitted on schedule in addition to reviewing results

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Poultry Science, Animal Science, Agriculture, or relatable major
• 10+ years of experience in agricultural leadership
• Experience in poultry biosecurity protocols, animal health and welfare practices, and disease or illness detection, preferred
• Ability to analyze data or processes, report findings and make recommendations.
• Interpersonal skills sufficient to communicate verbally and in writing with others in an objective and cooperative manner.

. Date posted: 07/02/2025