Profession game keeper

Game keepers manage the habitat and wild game population in a defined area. 

Personality Type

• Realistic / Social
• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Investigative
• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Animal welfare legislation

  The legal boundaries, codes of professional conduct, national and EU regulatory frameworks and legal procedures of working with animals and living organisms, ensuring their welfare and health.

• Understand game species

  Understan biology and ecology of relevant game specieis including game birds, deer, and fisheries.

• Wild game meat food safety

  Understand food safety management procudures and national requirements for wild game meat.

Skills

• Remove predators

  Control predators such as foxes, crows and rats by shooting and trapping.

• Manage game management plans

  Develop, manage and monitor a game management plan to ensure that there is enough game such as deer, pheasant, partridge and grouse.

• Maintain game equipment

  Repair game equipment, buildings and game pens. Clean guns after use.

• Rear game

  Rear and care for juvenile game in accordance with a game production plan.

• Control the production of game meat for human consumption

  Support the hygienic handling of dead game. Inspect game carcasses to make sure it is suitable for consumption. Ensure game meat is handled, stored and dispatched hygienically and according to legal requirements.

• Manage habitats to benefit game

  Develop and apply a habitat management plan.

• Organise game shoots

  Plan and organise shoots and fishing parties.

• Protect game

  Prevent unlicensed hunting by patrolling the area at night.

• Manage animal hygiene

  Plan and use appropriate hygiene measures to prevent transmission of diseases and ensure an effective overall hygiene. Maintain and follow hygiene procedures and regulations when working with animals, communicate site hygiene controls and protocols to others. Manage the safe disposal of waste according to destination and local regulations.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB