This is the senior, specialist, or leadworker level of the series. Leads assigned crew and performs a variety of assignments assisting in the management of a game farm or operating creamery equipment.  Regularly assigns, instructs, and checks the work of others.  May supervise and train lower laborers, farm workers, and part-time helpers

Directs farming operations in absence of supervisor; 

Leads assistants and performs activities in the feeding, breeding, management, and general care of animals including research and teaching functions; 

Supervises staff subordinate game farm personnel in breeding, egg taking, hatching, raising, and caring for pheasants and other game birds; 

Supervises work crews typically involved in construction, maintenance, and repair of game farm buildings and equipment; 

Detects, diagnoses, and treats common poultry diseases; debeaks and brails birds; selects brood stock; 

Receives, weighs, tests, and dumps milk delivered to a creamery; 

Operates pasteurizers, homogenizers, bottling machines, churns, and bottle washers; 

Assists in the manufacture of ice cream, cheese, chocolate milk, and other dairy products; 

May supervise lower level staff.