Dairy Farm Assistant

We have a job for a dairy farm assistant who will ideally have 1+ years’ dairy farm
experience. This is for a 2100 cow farm in the Te Pirita area, 37 minutes from
Ashburton, milking through an 60 & 80 Bail Rotary shed.

You’ll have a range of duties to keep you busy, interested and developing including:
– Milking twice a day
– shifting cows and feeding
– fencing, weed control
– calving, calf rearing,
– shed cleaning and setup,
– identifying and alerting managers to sick cows
– Setting fences
– and other general farm duties.

Weekly hours are a minimum of 30, average of 46 and a maximum of 48. Since farm
work is dependent on a number of unknown factors like weather and animals, should
you work beyond the maximum hours in a fortnightly pay period, you will be paid the
agreed overtime hourly rate for any hours beyond the maximum hours.
Wage is up to $29.66 per hour subject to experience.

Candidates will ideally have previous dairy farming experience and are required to
provide good related references.

To be considered you must:
– provide a CV which is current, correct and complete or alternative evidence of work
(this is proof of work and professionalism and the employer will not consider you without this)
– be a solid worker and with good character (where possible, we will do a criminal
check)
– be physically fit
– be able to pass a pre-employment drug test
– ideally have at least a restricted driver licence as you’ll need to go between farm
and town.

Fair warning – if you’re not willing to get up early, work hard, work & communicate
well with others, you won’t want this job (or last in it).