A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in receiving and preparing eggs for incubation; incubating eggs; grading, preparing, and shipping chicks in poultry hatchery. Respnsibilities include:

• Confers with hatchery manager to discuss equipment and supply needs, production and research requirements, and work schedules.
• Assigns workers to duties, such as egg candling, sorting and traying, incubating eggs, and grading and debeaking chicks.
• Monitors thermometers, gauges, and chart recorders to detect equipment malfunctions and to verify compliance with incubator temperature and ventilation standards.
• Adjusts controls to maintain specified incubating conditions.
• Periodically inspects eggs in incubator trays to ascertain hatching progress, and orders removal of chicks.
• Observes packing of chicks to verify adherence to customer's orders and shipping instructions.
• Prepares production reports, and requisitions equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May be designated according to type of hatchery as Supervisor, Chicken Hatchery; Supervisor, Turkey Hatchery.