5 jobs found in Ashburton, Canterbury Region

We are seeking a passionate self motivated person to join our team. We milk 700 cows through a 54 Bale Rotary Shed with ACRS and Pro Track, located 10mins drive from Ashburton. The successful applicant will have good stock knowledge and experience in dairy farming an advantage. You will need to be keen to learn, enjoy working with stock and in the outdoors, must be tidy and have good work ethic. We offer an enjoyable safe working environment and support training. We strive for the best with Animal Health, Milk Quality and Pasture Production. We run a system 4 farm, your duties will include milking, clean up, treating stock, shifting irrigation, putting up fences, dusting, feeding out and other on farm tasks. You are required to have a minimum of a restricted nz drivers’ license as we travel to grazing in the winter and must be able to speak English. Drug and Alcohol testing is part of our contracts. Start date is 20th of September 2026, this is flexible. If this sounds like you...

We have a position available for a Dairy Farm Assistant on a 700-cow farm milking through a 54 Rotary Bale shed in the Ashburton area. The farm is located 10-15 minutes to Ashburton, 30 minutes from Mt Hutt Ski Field.  Previous experience is preferred but not required for this role. 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 50. 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 would be 7 days on 2 days off. Salary ranges from $67,782 - $76,000...

We are looking for an experienced farm worker (2+ years) to work as a Herd Manager on a 700-cow farm in the Ashburton area. The farm is located  10-15 minutes to Ashburton, 30 minutes from Mt Hutt Ski Field and milking through a 54 Rotary Bale 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 maintenance & preparation, tractor operation for feeding out, baling, mowing and silage  monitoring, recording and maintaining animal health and other general farm duties. Candidates must have competent and strong in milking, centre pivot, and tractor work experience. Weekly hours are a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 50. 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...

system 5 680 cow dairy farm 30km south of Ashburton 60 bale shed with cup removers an in shed feeding two centre pivots 10 sprinklers 5/2 roster 

We are looking for an relief milker for a 750 cow farm located 10 minutes east of Ashburton. This is a casual drive in position and experience in milking is required as it is a high producing herd, being milked through a 1 person shed. The cows are being milked through a 54 bale rotary with acr and auto teatspray. The roster will be covering the other staffs days off, and will be 4 days on, 6 days off, with the occasional 6 days on, 4 days off, the high producing herd takes around 4 hours to milk in the morning and around 3 hours in the afternoon. Starting times are 5am and 2.30pm. Other duties will include general farm maintance such as fencing, cleaning and tidying.