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Veterinary & Animal Nutrition Technical Officer
Kaziweza Limited
Nakuru 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 15 days ago (21 Aug 2026) Updated 11 days ago
Job Description
The Veterinary & Animal Nutrition Technical Officer provides practical field support on animal health, nutrition, feed performance and customer complaints. Working closely with sales, quality, production, nutrition and operations teams, the officer identifies root causes of performance issues and recommends customer‑focused solutions. The role involves farm visits, technical investigations, report preparation and training of farmers and sales staff. Continuous feedback to internal teams helps improve products and services.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science, Animal Nutrition, Livestock Production or a related field.
- • 5–7 years experience in the animal feed industry.
- • Practical experience with dairy, poultry and swine.
- • Strong knowledge of animal nutrition, feed ingredients and livestock production.
- • Valid Kenyan veterinary or animal nutrition professional registration.
- • Experience handling customer complaints, farm investigations and providing technical advisory.
- • Strong analytical, diagnostic and problem‑solving abilities.
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Visit farms and customers to investigate feed, animal health and performance issues.
- • Provide appropriate feed recommendations for dairy, poultry, swine and other livestock.
- • Work alongside sales teams during customer visits, product trials and technical discussions.
- • Investigate customer complaints and determine nutritional, animal‑health, feed or farm‑management causes.
- • Collect samples and coordinate investigations with quality, laboratory, production and nutrition teams.
- • Prepare comprehensive technical reports with clear findings, conclusions and recommended corrective actions.
- • Follow up on implementation and effectiveness of agreed corrective actions.
- • Train farmers, customers and sales teams on feeding practices, animal management and biosecurity.
- • Provide technical guidance to improve animal and product performance and customer satisfaction.
- • Identify recurring field issues and relay feedback to internal teams for improvement.