2 farm assistant jobs found in Ashburton

We are seeking an experienced farm worker (12+ months) to join our team as Assistant Herd Manager on an 1,800-cow farm in the Ashburton area, operating a two 50 Bail Rotary milking shed. You'll have a range of duties to keep you busy, interested and developing including: Milking and monitoring milk quality, stock handling and feeding (feed mgt), 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 35 and a maximum of 44. Since farm work is dependent on a number of unknown factors like weather and animals, any hours worked beyond the agreed maximum in a fortnightly pay period will be paid at the agreed overtime rate. The schedule may vary; Roster will be 5 days on, 2 days off for the rest of the year. Salary is $63,000 per annum. Candidates must have previous dairy farming...

We have a position available on dairy farm at bankside. Must be competent in all dairy animal health, ability to work unsupervised, 2 wheel and side by side vehicles, all machinery and able to work in a team environment. Must be on NZ resident or NZ Citizen.