Full-Time Dairy Farm Assistant –Maraekakaho

We have a job for a dairy farm assistant who will ideally have 6+ months’ dairy farm experience.  This is for a 1750 cow farm in the Maraekakaho area, 40 minutes from Hastings, milking through a 70 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 50, a average and maximum of 55 for the salary. Since farm work is dependent on a number of unknown factors like weather and animals, should you work beyond the agreed maximum hours in a fortnightly pay period.

The schedule may vary but generally work hours are between 4am and go through 5pm with meal and rest breaks.

Wage ranges from $25.00 – $30.00 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
• have at least a restricted driver licence as you’ll need to go between farm and runoff.

A Word of Advice:

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).

How to Apply:

Please send your CV and a brief summary of your relevant experience to:
recruitment@frenz.co.nz

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