Animal Feeder Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Prepare rations to current feeding instructions.
• Operate permitted mixing and delivery equipment.
• Check troughs water points and animal response.
• Maintain feed-store hygiene rotation and security.
• Record quantities variances and welfare concerns.

A realistic working scenario

One group leaves feed and appears unsettled. The feeder records the pen, ration and observation and alerts the stock lead rather than increasing feed or altering ingredients without direction.

Outputs to agree

• accurately delivered rations
• clean controlled feed systems
• early appetite and welfare reports

Records and evidence

• Ration batch quantity and group.
• Feed stock delivery and rotation.
• Equipment clean and defect.
• Intake concern and escalation.
• Work records.
• Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• The feeder cannot alter diets, administer medicines, use contaminated feed or operate machinery beyond training and authorisation.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Risk assessment records.

Workplace context

• Production, workshop, site or field locations.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• species groups shifts and locations
• rations stores biosecurity and contamination
• machinery dust PPE and manual handling
• welfare observation records and escalation

Information the employer should prepare

• the animals and feeding schedule
• the ration approval and change process
• the equipment and cleaning rules
• the biosecurity and feed-store controls
• the welfare and emergency contacts