Qualification details
Title
New Zealand Certificate in Poultry Section Management (Level 4)
Version
1
Qualification type
Certificate
Level
4
Credits
80
NZSCED
050105 - Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies >
Agriculture > Animal Husbandry
Qualification developer
Primary ITO
Next review
December 2020
Approval date
August 2015
Strategic purpose statement
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the poultry industry
with experienced individuals who have the skills and knowledge
to take responsibility for the day to day operational management
of a section in a poultry facility.
Learners will benefit by having a qualification that provides formal
recognition of the broad skills and knowledge of poultry section
management, and provides a pathway for further training and
enhanced employment options.
The poultry industry will benefit by having section managers who
can pathway from carrying out core tasks in poultry production to
poultry management in a poultry facility, and provide a
sustainable workforce at a senior level.
This qualification is targeted at poultry employees who aspire to
move from a poultry production role and pathway into a
management role in a poultry section.
Graduates will be capable of working in a self-managed capacity
under broad guidance and may be supervising others.
Graduate profile
Graduates of the qualification will be able to:

implement and maintain a work plan for a team of colleagues
in a specific section of a poultry facility to help meet
production targets

manage a section in either egg production, hatchery or
livebird production within a poultry facility
Education pathway
This qualification may build on the New Zealand Certificate in
Poultry Production (Level 3) with strands in Hatchery and
Livebird Production [Ref:2932] and may lead on to the New
Zealand Diploma in Agribusiness Management (Level 5) [Ref:
2221].
Employment pathway
Graduates of this qualification will have the skills and knowledge
to be employed as section managers of a poultry operation within
in a poultry facility.
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Qualification specifications
Qualification award
This qualification may be awarded by the Primary ITO as the
qualification developer and the industry training organisation
arranging training leading to the qualification under section 5 of
the Industry Training Act 1992.
This qualification may also be awarded by an education
organisation accredited under section 250 of the Education Act
1989 to deliver an approved programme leading to this
qualification.
The formal document certifying the award of this qualification will
display the NZQF logo and may also include the name and/or
logo of the awarding education organisation.
Evidence requirements for
assuring consistency
All education organisations offering programmes leading to the
qualification must engage with arrangements for managing
consistency, including covering actual and reasonable related
costs.
Each education organisation is responsible for deciding what
specific evidence it will provide to demonstrate how well its
graduates meet the graduate profile outcomes of the
qualification.
Evidence of the following must be provided:

Student feedback on course delivery and qualification
achievement, their perception of the value of the training, and
suggestions for improvements.

Feedback from employers on the level of skills, knowledge
and behaviour demonstrated by graduates of the
qualification.

Evidence of effective internal quality assurance systems.

Portfolios of work and/or assessment samples demonstrating
the range of student performance within a programme.
Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) can also provide any
other relevant evidence that supports the consistency review.
Minimum standard of
achievement and standards for
grade endorsements
The minimum standard of achievement required for award of the
qualification will be the achievement of all graduate outcomes in
the graduate profile through successful completion of an NZQA
approved programme.
Other requirements for the
qualification (including regulatory
body or legislative requirements)
N/A
General conditions for the programme leading to the qualification
General conditions for
programme
It is recommended that learners who wish to manage an egg
processing operation need to have completed the New Zealand
Certificate in Primary Industry Skills Level 2 [Ref:2218] in an Egg
Processing context.
It is recommended that learners who wish to manage a hatchery
or livebird operation should have completed the New Zealand
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Certificate in Poultry Production (Level 3) [Ref:2932] in the
appropriate Hatchery or Livebird Production strand.
This qualification may be achieved in an egg production,
hatchery or poultry livebird production operation (in a caged,
colony, barn or free range environment).
Compliance with workplace health and safety requirements,
sustainable practices and animal welfare standards applies
across all outcomes.
Conditions relating to the Graduate profile
Qualification outcomes
Conditions
1
Programmes must include the following topics:
Implement and maintain a
work plan for a team of
colleagues in a specific section
of a poultry facility to help meet
production targets
Credits 5
2
Manage a section in either egg
production, hatchery or livebird
production within a poultry
facility
Credits 75

team objectives – aligned to section goals and production
targets

tasks - section needs and resources

responsibilities – individual experience and strengths

timeframes – work timetables and milestones
Programmes must include the following topics:

compliance requirements

poultry welfare and biosecurity

poultry quality assurance

support services – poultry industry, vets, nutritionists

resources - staff, poultry and plant

physiology, body systems and physical disorders

poultry reproductive disorders

diseases and disease mitigation

feed programmes

environmental programmes including temperature,
ventilation, humidity, and lighting

hygiene and sanitation programmes
The poultry production section must include one of the following:

meat chickens

pullets

layer hens

layer breeder birds

egg production

egg packhouse

hatchery
Transition information
Replacement information
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This qualification replaced the National Certificate in Poultry
Management (Level 4) [Ref:1156].
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Learners currently enrolled in programmes leading to the replaced qualifications may either complete the
requirements as specified below, or transfer their results to this replacement qualification.
The last date for entry into programmes leading to the replaced qualifications is 31 December 2018. The
last date for assessment of the replaced qualifications is 31 December 2020 at which time they will be
designated as discontinued.
It is the intention of Primary ITO that no existing learner should be disadvantaged by these transition
arrangements. Any person who considers they have been disadvantaged may appeal to the Primary
ITO.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
PO Box 10383
The Terrace
Wellington 6143
Telephone 04 801 9616
Facsimile 04 801 9626
Email standards@primaryito.ac.nz
Website www.primaryito.ac.nz
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