Publicerad: 2024-10-08
Animal health veterinarian
Meet us online on the 24th of October!
We are participating on the online-event Swedish Day 2024 the 24th of October and are happy to meet you in a TEAMS-session, talking about our organization, the job description, what we have to offer and what we are looking for. For more information, visit the platform: https://europeanjobdays.eu/en/event/swedish-day-2024
Job offer description:
As an animal health veterinarian at Växa, you work strategically and preventively with herd health management services for dairy and beef cattle in Sweden.
You mainly do scheduled visits that involves working with e.g. reproductive examinations, udder health and different types of control programs. Växa provide a lot of selected herd performance records that help our veterinarians with decisions and actions related to specific herd management issues. Many of our veterinarians also work with the ViLA-program that give the farmers opportunity to treat some diseases on their own if they work together with the veterinarian and have scheduled visits regarding preventive herd health.
You are based on one of our numerous operating sites countrywide and since we provide a wide range of advisory services for farmers you will be a part of a team of dedicated people with a diverse range of experiences in different areas. We encourage collaboration within the company, and you will have a large number of knowledgeable and experienced colleagues only a call away.
Further education and training are a natural part of the work, and we offer all our new employees a solid introduction.
Job requirements:
Veterinary degree from an EU/EEA country
Driving license
When you start working with us you need to have basic knowledge in Swedish and be motivated to learn Swedish on a communication level
Good communication skills are of great importance, and we value personal qualities such as the ability to create relationships and to collaborate, both with customers and colleagues
Place of work:
Småland (Eksjö) or Västergötland (Falköping)
Nice to have:
Former experience working as a veterinarian with cattle
Experience working with preventive herd health management services
Advanced training in Artificial Insemination for cattle
Good skills in dutch
Benefits:
We offer a flexible working life, individually adapted competence development, health insurance and health care allowance and much more
About Växa:
Växa Sverige is Sweden's largest cattle farmers association, with approximately 200,000 dairy cows registered in our database, Kokontrollen.
We work to ensure that Swedish agriculture is sustainable, profitable and competitive. Växa Sverige is owned by its approximately 6000 members who are also our customers, and we have 220 elected representatives.
We are a modern national consultancy and service company, primarily working with dairy and beef producers. Many of our services are also suited to agricultural businesses operating in other sectors. We cover Sweden from Norrbotten, to Halland in the west, Skåne, Småland and Blekinge in the south and Öland and Gotland in the east.
The organisation is based at several locations around the country, where it employs 330 knowledgeable and dedicated full-time staff. We offer products and consultancy services that includes but is not limited to: qualified temporary staff, insemination and consultation on fodder, breeding, production optimisation, leadership and preventive veterinary medicine.
We are participating on the online-event Swedish Day 2024 the 24th of October and are happy to meet you in a TEAMS-session, talking about our organization, the job description, what we have to offer and what we are looking for. For more information, visit the platform: https://europeanjobdays.eu/en/event/swedish-day-2024
Job offer description:
As an animal health veterinarian at Växa, you work strategically and preventively with herd health management services for dairy and beef cattle in Sweden.
You mainly do scheduled visits that involves working with e.g. reproductive examinations, udder health and different types of control programs. Växa provide a lot of selected herd performance records that help our veterinarians with decisions and actions related to specific herd management issues. Many of our veterinarians also work with the ViLA-program that give the farmers opportunity to treat some diseases on their own if they work together with the veterinarian and have scheduled visits regarding preventive herd health.
You are based on one of our numerous operating sites countrywide and since we provide a wide range of advisory services for farmers you will be a part of a team of dedicated people with a diverse range of experiences in different areas. We encourage collaboration within the company, and you will have a large number of knowledgeable and experienced colleagues only a call away.
Further education and training are a natural part of the work, and we offer all our new employees a solid introduction.
Job requirements:
Veterinary degree from an EU/EEA country
Driving license
When you start working with us you need to have basic knowledge in Swedish and be motivated to learn Swedish on a communication level
Good communication skills are of great importance, and we value personal qualities such as the ability to create relationships and to collaborate, both with customers and colleagues
Place of work:
Småland (Eksjö) or Västergötland (Falköping)
Nice to have:
Former experience working as a veterinarian with cattle
Experience working with preventive herd health management services
Advanced training in Artificial Insemination for cattle
Good skills in dutch
Benefits:
We offer a flexible working life, individually adapted competence development, health insurance and health care allowance and much more
About Växa:
Växa Sverige is Sweden's largest cattle farmers association, with approximately 200,000 dairy cows registered in our database, Kokontrollen.
We work to ensure that Swedish agriculture is sustainable, profitable and competitive. Växa Sverige is owned by its approximately 6000 members who are also our customers, and we have 220 elected representatives.
We are a modern national consultancy and service company, primarily working with dairy and beef producers. Many of our services are also suited to agricultural businesses operating in other sectors. We cover Sweden from Norrbotten, to Halland in the west, Skåne, Småland and Blekinge in the south and Öland and Gotland in the east.
The organisation is based at several locations around the country, where it employs 330 knowledgeable and dedicated full-time staff. We offer products and consultancy services that includes but is not limited to: qualified temporary staff, insemination and consultation on fodder, breeding, production optimisation, leadership and preventive veterinary medicine.