Job description

Hatchery Planner – Hail, Saudi Arabia

The Company:

Almarai is the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy and the region’s largest food and beverage manufacturing and distribution company. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Almarai Company is ranked as the #1 FMCG Brand in the MENA region and is a market leader in all its categories across the GCC. Almarai currently employs over 46,000 Quality Makers, across the GCC, Egypt & Jordan. In 2025, Almarai reported net income of SAR 2.4 billion on sales of SAR 22 billion. For more details, please visit our website –www.almarai.com.

An aggressive expansion program together with acquisitions in new vertical markets have created an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic multinational team dedicated to furthering growth plans for the group.

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly organized and proactive Hatchery Planner to support daily hatchery operations and production planning activities. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring efficient resource utilization, maintaining production performance, monitoring hatchery KPIs, and ensuring compliance with biosecurity and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate daily hatchery activities to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Prepare and monitor production plans in line with business requirements and production targets.
• Coordinate manpower, equipment, materials, and operational resources to maintain readiness and efficiency.
• Monitor hatchery performance, production results, hatchability, chick quality, and key operational KPIs.
• Ensure compliance with hatchery operating procedures, quality standards, and company policies.
• Monitor and enforce biosecurity requirements to maintain high standards of flock health and operational safety.
• Identify and support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, efficiency, and chick quality.
• Collaborate closely with hatchery management and cross-functional teams to achieve operational objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Poultry Science, Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in commercial poultry hatchery operations.
• Experience in incubation, hatching, chick processing, vaccination, and hatchery production processes.
• Knowledge of hatchery equipment operation, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with production planning, KPI analysis, and process improvement initiatives.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful and expanding global business, offering an excellent remuneration and benefits package.

Preferred candidate

Years of experience

No experience required

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma