Farm Support Assistant

**Reference no**: 497535
**Work type**: Continuing - Full Time
**Location**: Wagga Wagga
**Categories**: Professional
- Hands-on farm hand position in secure employment
- Perform general farm work including sowing, fencing, equipment maintenance, and working with livestock
- Support Charles Sturt University's commitment to education and research in the agricultural field

**The role**
- Continuing, Full time (35 hours per week)
- Level 4 - $65,926 to $71,565 pa (plus 17% superannuation)
- Wagga Wagga

Assist the Farm Manager to achieve the goals of CSU Farm, through the efficient operation of all farm enterprises.

You will operate and maintain agricultural machinery, livestock work, general farm repair and maintenance, and capital development projects. You will be working with a modern fleet of John Deere tractors, 500 Angus cows and 2,000 commercial ewes.

As part of this recruitment, and pre-employment functional screening is required.

**About you**
- Good stockmanship with demonstrated hands-on farming experience, including animal husbandry.
- Physical capacity to undertake manual labor and demonstrated manual handling techniques
- Knowledge of modern agricultural machinery and practices and ability to operate and maintain farm machinery

**Benefits**
- Work life balance
- Professional development opportunities
- Enjoy salary packaging and sacrifice options
- Sporting facilities (pool, tennis courts, fields) and car parking on our campuses
- Onsite childcare facilities

Visit our website to learn more about our great range of employee benefits.

**About us**

We are a university of the land and people of our regions. True to the character of regional Australia we have gumption, we have soul and we collaborate with others. We develop holistic, far-sighted people who help their communities grow and flourish.

The Wiradjuri phrase _yindyamarra winhanganha_ means the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in. This phrase represents who we are at Charles Sturt University - our ethos. It comes from traditional Indigenous Australian knowledge, but it also speaks to the mission of universities - to develop and spread wisdom to make the world a better place.

Harnessing technology, we thrive as a distributed yet connected community, welcoming and engaging with people across Australia and the world.

The Agrisciences Research and Business Park (AgriPark) based on Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus is a key step in the University’s long held vision and commitment to support, facilitate and grow the nations agricultural sector. It provides dedicated infrastructure, services and support to allow innovative industry to co-locate, integrate and collaborate with each other and the multidisciplinary research strengths at Charles Sturt University to meet emerging national and global challenges and enable major advances over the coming decades.

Charles Sturt University is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. This is demonstrated through our Athena SWAN Bronze Institutional Award and our participation as a member in the Australian Workplace Equality Index. Applications are encouraged from Indigenous Australians; people with a disability; women (particularly for senior and non-traditional roles); people who identify as LGBTIQA+; and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

**To apply**

This position is open to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents; or applicants who hold a current valid work visa commensurate with this position.

**Further information**

Additional information is available in the position description or by contacting:
**Closing Date: 11pm, 3 October 2024**

**Advertised**:12 Sep 2024 09:00 AM**:

- AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**:03 Oct 2024 11:00 PM**:

- AUS Eastern Standard Time