Dairy Unit Industrial
37 plus overtime
Mon-Sun on shifts
£12.59 per hour
Dairy
1. Milking duties, including bringing cows to and from fields and houses for milking, preparing cows for milking, milking cows, maintaining hygiene throughout the milking process, maintaining parlour cleanliness.
2. Feeding cows, including preparing experimental rations to specific experimental requirements, normally using a telescopic handler, tractor and mixer wagon, but also by hand or using a mini mixer.
3. Pasture/grazing management, including sowing fertiliser, mowing paddocks using a mower, harvesting grass using a zero-grazer, weed control, allocating pasture, setting up fence lines, checking water troughs.
4. Maintaining high animal health and welfare standards, including identifying and treating sick animals, routine health management, vaccination, hoof care, assisting veterinary practitioners.
5. Fertility management, including heat detection, artificial insemination, assisting at calving, and ensuring the health and welfare of calves and cows at birth.
6. General livestock management duties, including bedding cow houses/cubicles and calving pens (for example, with straw, sawdust and lime), clipping cows.
7. Recording detailed herd health and management details, both electronically and hard copy, as appropriate. Assisting scientific staff to take measurements.
8. Maintaining overall cleanliness and tidiness of the dairy unit, including cleaning and disinfecting animal accommodation, brushing, power hosing, grass cutting, weed control/management, silo management.
9. All types of general farm duties, and any other duties that may arise, including young-stock management.
10. Conducting an evening check of animals within the herds, which may include checking young stock and calf’s.
This list is not exclusive and the successful candidate will be required to carry out other duties as allocated by management.
Note the scope of duties may change over time, subject to a review of structures
Eligibility Criteria .
1. Possess a recognised level 2 or higher in Agriculture/Land based Technology/Dairy Management or equivalent.
2. Be able to demonstrate, by way of examples, that they have at least 12 months experience during the last 5 years of working in a Dairy Farm, including milking, feeding, maintaining cow hygiene throughout all milking processes.
3. Be able to demonstrate, by way of examples of general livestock husbandry skills, including calving, record management and animal health and welfare.
4. Have a full driving licence which enables the holder to drive a car in Northern Ireland.
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