Ready to take the next step or kickstart your dairy farming career?
Rimanui Farms is a leading, large-scale, multi-farm business, excelling in dairy, sheep, and beef cattle farming. This is a chance to join a high-performing, aspirational, and exciting business, working on our Glentanner dairy farm milking 720 cows, located just 40-minutes from Christchurch.
What’s on offer?
If you’re a motivated, reliable, and passionate about dairy farming, we want to hear from you!
Duties include but are not limited to:
Staff management including organising daily operation of the farm and delegating.
Training staff, leading the team and being constantly health and safety conscious.
Feed allocation, feeding out, pasture measurement and setting up break fences.
Use technology to improve farming outcomes.
Reporting daily back to the manager.
Competent with machinery, maintenance and reporting repairs needed in a timely fashion.
Accountability and eagerness to accept and grow from mistakes. We offer a safe environment to be able to come forward with problems or mistakes and use them as an opportunity to learn.
Detecting and treating health issues such as: Mastitis, lameness, sickness, metabolic issues and acidosis.
Be confident feeding fodder beet, calculating feeding and area needed etc.
You will need to have a keen eye for detail, be able to spot when something isn't working properly, understand why it's making a funny noise etc.
We're after someone who wants to manage a farm, and this is a great step to get there.
You will need to be:
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Glentanner is a recently re-developed flat block that is 98% irrigated located 5 minutes from Hororata. The farm is well set up and located in a great spot with Ashburton, Rolleston, Methven and Christchurch all within a 40 minute drive. Glentanner has 4 permanent staff with a drive in to rear the calves and help with the early morning milkings. Glentanner is a farm that is improving drastically every season since new ownership and is looking for a superstar to help us continue on the trajectory. We are lead with pride with Synlait and sat 15th for Milk Quality and 27th for SCC last year. We take a huge pride in sending high quality milk and love our animals. We milk through a 40 aside herringbone shed with Read ACR's, in shed feeding and walkover automatic teat sprayer. Will be implementing Halter for the 25/26 season.