Education programmes of job
Nature of work
He works independently within the powers conferred upon him to classify animals and select suitable strains, prepare animal breeding programs, develop animal production, nutrition and healthcare methods, prepare work materials quantity and quality tables, and bid specification and requirements, manage subordinates and develop their skills; develop procedures, and provide requirements of occupational safety and health. Tasks are:- Identify livestock breeds and types for various production purposes Study the most productivity species in the market.
- Identify barns specifications, and various production factors.
- Prepare breeding programs, animal diseases prevention and treatments, nutrition and fattening programs
- Prepare the livestock production and propagation devices and equipments
- Identifying livestock materials and equipment quantity tables specifications
- Prepare livestock production and propagation bid pre-requisites, and the technical and financial aspects.
- Prepare the livestock production technical reports, and develop the working methods by using modern techniques.
- Evaluate subordinates performance and their training needs and improve their skills.
- Provide occupational safety and health requirements
Environment of work
- Livestock engineer works about eight hours a day in a week, but his job requires him sometimes to work extra time at the weekends, and during the holidays during emergency days during birth and vaccine season which is need a long time of work.
- The work environment requires to wear special field dress, gloves, and shoes.
- The various types of animal breeding works requires using of multiple different equipments.
- Working independently is possible by establishing his own animal farm, or working as team member in livestock production farms enterprises.
- Commitment to international livestock production standard specifications products and work to achieve quality performance.
- Livestock engineer must have credibility and integrity, and does not succumb to any emotional effects, and gives his opinion in documenting the results clearly and impartiality
Professional life
- Livestock engineer can work independently or as a team member within the powers conferred upon him in private or public sectors. His salary in public sector will be at least 20,000 Syrian bounds.
- Livestock engineer contributes in livestock breeding and production planning, and animal products selecting(meat, milk, eggs…etc.) that will be produced in his farm, prepares the technical reports about the activities as well as the office works, and selects local leaders to train them.
- He contributes in specification production requires that are used in work place.
- Livestock engineer profession develops when he/she gains more practical and professional experiences by profession level degrees as field supervisor engineer to bigger livestock management Departments, which is included the tasks of livestock production planning and applying.
- Livestock engineer may travel abroad for training or gaining more expertise in the field of livestock.
Sectors of careers
- Livestock farms.
- Field crops farms
- Agro-food and agro-processing mills.
- Pastures.
- Rural development centers.
- Agricultural production security institutions.
- Agricultural Research centers.
- Livestock centers.
- Agriculture colleges and technical institutes,
- Agriculture Department and agriculture centers.
Getting the job
- For getting this job, the person have to study in Agriculture Faculty, Department of Essential Sciences, or Animal Production.
- The students during that should study agricultural courses including grasslands and deserts, the basics of animal foraging , animals breeding physiology , forages, and get some related courses such as: Goat and sheep breeding, cows and buffalos breeding, horses and camels breeding, animal health and genetic improvement. In addition to his foreign languages, computer programming, engineering quality knowledge.
- Preferably, Agriculture Faculty graduated students pursue their graduated program studies in the Department of Animal Production to get their master's and Ph.D.
Skills
- Ability to work effectively as a multidisciplinary team member, and be familiar with the various work environments.
- Ability to demonstrates effective interpersonal work environments skills in the term of solutions devise, and creative ideas ability.
- Ability of continuous self learning to keep pace with the rapid technological development and major knowledge transfer.
- Ability to achieve the required work on time efficiently, and work according to imposed priorities.
- Ability to manage tasks and resources efficiently, and development possibility.
- He must have professional and ethics standards commitment, and evaluate the workers performance, and work to improve their skills continuously.
- He must have farm animal breeding and production knowledge.
- He must have good manners during work burdens.
- He must study and select the market required higher productivity animals verities.
- Ability to prepare farm animals breeding programs
- Ability to prepare appropriate breeding programs
- Ability to develop animals and animals babies nutrition - fattening programs.
- Ability to identify diseases prevention and treatments programs in collaboration with a veterinarian
Sources and references
- Agriculture Faculty Internal Regulation 2007 – Aleppo University.
- Arab Standard Classification of Occupations- Arab Labor Organization-2008.
- National Academic Reference Standard (NARS)- Syrian High Education Ministry- 2012.