Poultry Farm Worker

Our client, an egg producer in Kinglake West, VIC, is looking for 20 qualified and experienced poultry farm workers to assist with operations.

**Tasks**:
Animal Husbandry
- Monitor and maintain required feeding per assigned schedule,
- Maintain clean water supply,
- Regular cleaning of cages, barns, aviaries and paddocks,
- Ensure feed is ordered in a timely manner,
- Prepare for animal vaccines as per schedule,
- Reporting animal behaviour changes, illness and disease to the Farm Manager,
- Disposing of animals displaying behavioural inconsistencies, illness and disease ethically and according to company policy.
- Oversee animal breeding to ensure egg production outcomes (if applicable).

Shed Controls
- Maintain exceptional housekeeping and bio-security standards to ensure Quality Assurance compliance,
- Monitor the sheds to ensure no entry for wild birds,
- Monitor flock for disease outbreak, reporting immediately any concerns,
- Correct setup of sheds to receive delivery of birds,
- Assist in free range paddocks monitoring and maintenance,
- Ensure a turnaround from depopulation to restocking as per agreement with Supervisors and measurable outcomes,
- Timely removal of deceased livestock in accordance with company biosecurity practices,
- Ensure cleanliness of sheds, work areas, building and surrounds,
- Restock of required materials in sheds.

Collection
- Regularly walking through all sheds to collect displaced eggs,
- Reintroduce floor eggs to the assembly area for grading and packing,
- Consistently deliver through the monitoring of egg quality, 1st Grade sellable eggs,
- Ensure collection of only quality 1st Grade sellable eggs to other farm hands.

Packing
- Timely removal of collected eggs from conveyer belt,
- Manually sanitising eggs,
- Maintain recording requirements regarding egg details,
- Reporting egg detail issues to the Farm Supervisor immediately,
- Monitor packing equipment and machinery for faults,
- Report equipment and machinery faults to the Farm Supervisor immediately,
- Ensure eggs are packed per company set packing rate.
- Ensure packing area is within Company standard operating policy and audit standard cleanliness guidelines.

**Salary: base rate of $43,685 p/a**

**Requirements**:

- Australian Citizens or Permanent residents encouraged to apply
- A minimum AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)
- Minimum 2 years of recent and relevant work experience
- Knowledge of farming best practices.
- Able to work long hours on location.
- Good communication skills.
- Must be physically fit.
- Excellent hand-eye coordination.

**Salary**: From $43,685.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company car

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Weekend availability

**Education**:

- Certificate I - IV (preferred)

**Experience**:

- farm work: 2 years (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Application Deadline: 27/02/2023