Job title: Dairy Farm Assistant (Wanganui
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Expected salary: $29.66 per hour
Location: Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui
Dairy Farm Assistant (Wanganui Job Details:
Job Description We have a job for a dairy farm assistant who will ideally have 1+ years’ dairy farm experience. This is for a 800 cow farm in the Wanganui area, 10 minutes from Whanganui town, milking through a 36 Aside Herringbone 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 55. 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
– have at least a restricted driver licence as you’ll need to go between farm, town and runoff.
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).
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