Job title: Agricultural Technicians – Feedlot Operations
Company: Australian Country Choice Production Pty
Expected salary: $70000 – 80000 per year
Location: Cecil Plains, QLD
Agricultural Technicians – Feedlot Operations Job Details:
Based at either our Brindley Park (near Roma) or Opal Creek (near Cecil Plains) feedlots, the role of Agricultural Technician works within a team environment and enjoys loads of variety in being responsible for ensuring the health, nutrition and welfare of our animals at all times.
You’ll be rewarded with a salary package between $70,000 – $80,000 per annum base income, plus superannuation, ongoing training and development. Your day to day duties will include:
- Receival and induction of all animals into feedlot
- Monitoring of animal health
- Ensuring adequate and correct rations are supplied to animals
- Accurate recording and data capture relating to animal movements, treatment and processes
- Administering of medication to sick animals, when necessary, in consultation with Veterinary staff
- Perform general repairs and maintenance of equipment as required including the use of grinder, welder, and other power tools
- Operate heavy machinery as required including but not limited to Front End loader, Feed Truck, Skid steer
- Safely and effectively undertake pen riding on (horseback)
- Delivery of feed to animals using modern machinery, ensuring correct feed allocated to animals to create desired finishing results.
About you
Along with being a self-motivated, positive team player who thrives in a fast paced environment, you’ll have an unwavering commitment to animal welfare and quality, along with:
- Demonstrated experience handling cattle and managing livestock
- Competency to safely handle and ride horses
- Ability to safely and efficiently operate machinery, plant & equipment
- Ability to accurately and promptly identify potential animal health issues
- Ability to undertake animal health procedures and safely administer treatment and medication
- Sound numeracy and literacy skills
- Appreciation of quality and compliance processes, with attention to detail and accuracy
- Sound computer literacy and keyboard skills
About us:
Australian Country Choice (ACC) are proud industry leaders in producing and supplying highest quality beef products to the local and export markets. We employ over 1200 team members and together our diverse operation carries 250,000 cattle across our large-scale breeding, backgrounding, farming and feedlotting through to our modern food processing and value add packing facility with processing capacity of 350 000 head of cattle per year.
All this, along with being 100% Australian and family owned and operated, means you really do get the best of both worlds. You get the opportunity and security that comes with a progressive corporate pastoral operation who continue to grow, develop and innovate, along with the support and personal interest that comes with being part of a family business. We’re solid, we’re progressive and we continue to invest in our infrastructure, our technology and our people.
At ACC we earn our stripes as masters of our craft and our commitment to be right in everything we do and how we do it by delivering the highest standards in safety, customer, operational excellence and our people. We do this by living our values of: Belief, Energy, Responsibility, Integrity, Grit, Humility and Team.
Apply now & earn your stripes with us!
OPEN DATE: 18/09/2023
CLOSING DATE: 20/10/2023
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