Animal Husbandry Technician

**Animal Husbandry Technician**

**Twynam Investments Pty Ltd**
- Marulan, NSW
- Farm Management (Livestock, Farming & Conservation)
- Full time
- $80,000 - $88,000 per year

Twynam Investments are looking for an experienced Animal Husbandry Technician to join our team at Marulan NSW, 2579 to assist the team in breeding, raising, feed efficiency testing and managing livestock by undertaking technical animal husbandry tasks such as pregnancy testing, artificial insemination, lactation management and providing nutrition assessment, managing our Intergado feed efficiency equipment, assessing feed efficiency and providing advice in these areas.

Combined with our philosophy to increase the soil carbon content via regenerative agricultural practices such as multi species pastures and intensive rotational grazing, we are striving to create Angus and composite breed of cattle to produce great eating meat while being much more feed efficient. To achieve these goals, we are involved with things such as worm farming, pasture spraying of biologicals, artificial insemination, feed efficiency testing of our cattle progeny, sourcing feed efficient cattle from around the world and a whole lot more.

**Basic Objective**:

- Efficiently run the Intergado feed production system in consultation with the team
- Ensure rotational grazing is achieved daily with feed out
- Induct cattle as they arrive on farm
- Manage load out of animals to sale
- Operate with regenerative farming principles
- Maintain the feed machinery with detailed plan
- Ensure staff are organised so system doesn't have down time
- Record product in and product out
- Unload all product and reload empty containers
- Weekly reporting on operations and performance of feed production

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage the operations of lntergado and ensure the units are used at the maximum throughput while on farm for Twynam
- Set out timelines with Livestock management for seamless induction of animals entering lntergado
- Ensure maximum uptime of the system
- Analyse results

**2. Feed Enterprise**
- Always have feed sources accounted for and surplus in advance
- Maintain all machinery for effective feeding
- Develop staffing plan to ensure effective feeding
- Monitor climatic conditions to ensure feeding isn't affected due to wet weather
- Cattle Operations
- To ensure the monitoring of animals to maximise production
- Develop strategic plans for livestock activities that provide guidance for operational and production systems
- To work with the Farm Manager to develop an integrated "Twynam" branded product
- Enhance the sustainability and efficiency of the Twynam business
- Develop and implement health programs for animals
- Plan and implement the staffing schedules
- Coordinate transportation of livestock when required
- Organise well documented livestock movements on and off farm
- Collect and record all reported data for production performance
- Keep all data up to date on AgriWebb
- Develop and suggest the breeding program in conjunction with the team

**4. Develop and manage Drought Strategies**

**5. Communications**
- Ensure effective communications of decisions across all team members.
- Meet regularly with the farm manager and other team members to coordinate activities to discuss operational issues, coordinate operations and resolve problems to enable the maximization of outcomes.
- Provide support to the Farm manager to facilitate the efficient functioning of the Twynam livestock enterprises.

**6. Provide support to Farm Manager to maximise the farm return: -**
- Yearly planning of operations
- Operational running costs relative to budget
- Notify and reconcile stock numbers and movements.

**7. Provide support to Livestock manager and Farm manger.**
- Effectively communicate to inform stock numbers and requirements
- Provide performance data of livestock so pasture performance and cost efficiency can be analysed

**8. Ensure feeding goals are achieved**

**9. Financial Management**
- Ensure all products are accounted for and relative information given to office
- Ensure all accounting information is completed accurately so activities only need to be done once
- Monitor livestock performance to actuals and liaise with management

**10. Ensure the sustainability of the business through**:

- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Awareness
- Appropriate resources
- Adapting technology

**11. Occupational Health & Safety**
- Improve our safety culture by ensuring all employees adhere to Twynam policy and procedure and that managers comply and administer all elements of the Occupational Health and Safety Injury Management System (see below)

**Key Performance Indicators**:

- Proactively attending to breeding, raising and management of cattle
- Maximise the use of lntegrado
- ensure that there are very few empty days
- Ensure that lntegrado operates with 95% up time
- All feed inputs are recorded correctly as they arrive on farm
- All feed production records