Dairy Farm Assistant

We're looking for someone keen to experience our rural NZ lifestyle by joining our dairy farming team starting as soon as possible until the end of October this year. Accommodation is available. 

We milk 750 cows in a Herringbone shed with automatic cup removers. We use Halter technology (Google it) to help manage our cows.

You will be required to work as a dairy farm assistant, a few of the jobs are listed below:

• Milking
• Collecting cows and calves from the paddock
• Farm maintenance

Essential skills/Attributes:

• Good attitude - willing to listen and learn.
• Practical skills - have done a physical, practical job before.
• Team player - able to communicate with the team to get jobs done.
• Physically fit - farming is hard work involving more than 9 hours per day working and doing physical jobs.
• Loves animals

Nice to haves:

• some farming experience
• capable of riding a two wheel motorbike or quad.

Our farm is 25 minutes from Oamaru which is our closest town for supermarkets, restaurants etc. Having your own vehicle is essential. Beach 15 mins and Lakes 1 hour travel from farm.