We have a job for a dairy farm assistant who must have 1+ years’ dairy farm experience and be a resident/citizen as employer will not be accredited.

This is for a 1200 cow farm in the Bainham area, 18 minutes from Collingwood, milking through an 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 40 and a maximum of 50. 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, you will be paid the agreed overtime hourly rate for any hours beyond the maximum hours.

The schedule may vary; Roster is 11 days on, 3 days off for the rest of the year.

Wage is $30 per hour.

Candidates must 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.

If you’re committed to getting up early, working hard, treating the animals with care and respect and communicating well with others, you will want this job (or last in it).