About this role
Education: Bachelor's degree. or equivalent experience. Work site environment: Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots. Livestock combination farming. Other miscellaneous crop farming. Livestock. Harvest crops. Farm. Work setting: Rural area. Remote location.
Tasks
- Conduct artificial insemination and spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Develop specific plans to prioritize.
- Direct farm grooming activities . Handling animals.
- Monitor the calving process.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work.
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs.
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Hire and train staff.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Supervision: 1 to 2 people.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Fertilizer applicator.
- Tractor.
- Forklift.
- Area of specialization: Agricultural livestock service.
- Cattle breeding.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Leadership.
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Financial benefits: Bonus.