The Boxberg Education and Knowledge Centre (State Institute for Pig Breeding - LSZ) has a vacancy for a

Farmer or animal farmer in pig farming (f/m/d)

part-time (min. 50% to max. 80%), temporary replacement position to be filled as soon as possible.

The LSZ is the central educational, experimental and performance testing facility of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the field of pig farming and pig breeding with administrative, teaching and accommodation buildings as well as stable areas, feed centre, workshop and slaughterhouse. It is an inter-company training centre for the agricultural and animal husbandry professions.

The livestock of the training and experimental farm comprises 252 sows with piglet rearing and pig fattening. two thirds of the herd are kept in stables of conventional construction (thermally insulated, heatable, forced ventilation stables) and one third in stables of alternative construction (non-thermally insulated open-fronted stables, gravity ventilation).

Your main area of responsibility:

- You will carry out all routine work in the teaching and experimental barns of conventional and alternative construction in the areas of piglet production, piglet rearing and pig fattening and will be involved in practice-oriented trials.
- In addition, you will assist with routine work in the feed centre, such as the preparation of feed rations, as well as cleaning and maintenance tasks at the grinding and mixing plant.

Your profile:

- You have completed training in a recognised agricultural occupation (e.g. farmer, animal farmer).
- You have good specialist knowledge and practical experience in all areas of pig farming as well as an enthusiasm for the daily handling of pigs.
- You are physically fit to carry out all work in the feed centre and the training and experimental stables.
- You are a passionate farmer or animal farmer and are willing to work regularly at weekends and on public holidays.
- Willingness and open-mindedness for the special requirements of a training and experimental farm with alternative husbandry systems and modern barn technology including digital management programmes and electronic data recording.
- A consistent, reliable work attitude characterises you and you are committed,
contact and team-oriented.
- You have confidence and good expressiveness in the German language (at least level B2).
- You have organisational skills.

An advantage:

- You have a valid class B/class 3 and class T driving licence.
- IT skills (MS Office), as well as experience with digital systems (e.g. sow planner).

Our offer:

- Respectful interaction with each other and enjoyment at work are our focus.
- As a training and research institute of the state of Baden-Württemberg, we offer you a secure job as well as a company pension scheme (VBL).
- The regular weekly working hours are part-time 24 to 38.4 hours including regular weekend and public holiday shifts.
- We offer a collectively agreed salary with annual special payment (currently 88.14 per cent of a monthly salary) and collectively agreed bonuses from animal sales.
- 30 + 2 days holiday per calendar year (with a 5-day week).
- You will receive intensive training in your new area of responsibility.
- We support your personal and professional development through needs-based training and further education opportunities.
- A growing offer as part of company health management.
- The state of Baden-Württemberg supports you in your mobility with the JobTicket BW and JobBike BW.

The employment relationship is based on the collective agreement for the public service of the federal states (TV-L), supplemented by the collective agreement TV-Tierhaltung. Remuneration is based on the collective agreement and personal requirements up to pay group 5[1] (https:#_ftn1).

We would like to further increase the proportion of women at the Boxberg Education and Knowledge Centre (LSZ) and are therefore particularly interested in receiving applications from women.

Applications from severely disabled persons and persons with equivalent disabilities are expressly welcomed and will be given preference if they have essentially equal aptitude.

You want to become part of our team?

If we have aroused your interest, we look forward to receiving your informative application documents. Please send them to bewerbungen@lsz.bwl.de (https://mailto:bewerbungen@lsz.bwl.de), quoting the reference number 0823/26-1107, by 21/06/2026 by e-mail (summarised in one attachment in pdf format, max. 3 MB) or

by post to the

Education and Knowledge Centre Boxberg
(State Institute for Pig Breeding - LSZ)
Seehöfer Straße 50
97944 Boxberg-Windischbuch.

In the case of foreign academic and professional qualifications, please send us the relevant proof of equivalence with a German qualification. For further information, please refer to the website of the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) at https://www.kmk.org (https://www.kmk.org).

For technical queries, please contact Barbara Keßler on 07930/9928-118. Further information about the LSZ Boxberg can be found at https://www.lsz-bw.de (https://www.lsz-bw.de/) .

The information on the collection of personal data from the data subject in accordance with Article 13 GDPR can be found on our homepage under Data protection for applications (https://lsz.landwirtschaft-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Service/Datenschutz+fuer+Bewerberverfahren).

[1] (https:#_ftnref1) The monthly amount listed in the TV-L remuneration table refers to 39.5 hours and is extrapolated according to the contractually agreed individual working hours.