Job Details
Category: Dry Stock Farmer
Location: Canterbury
No8HR
Rural recruitment & people performance
Senior Drystock Manager - Hororata, Canterbury
Opportunities like this don’t come very often. Minerva Farms Ltd are looking for a Senior Drystock Manager, the drystock operation is integral to supporting the wider farming business through providing high quality heifers to the dairy farms, breeding bulls and wintering cows.
Reporting to the Group Operations Manager and part of the Senior Management Team, this is an exciting opportunity to join this highly productive business showing your previous pasture & supplement feed management, stock management and strong cost control experience all while managing a team of 4 full time staff and 3 casuals.
The Farm
• 1072ha effective, spread over 8 blocks, 2 “hubs”.
• Carrying 2200 R2 heifers and 2100 R1 heifers.
• 420 Breeding bulls.
• Contour flat.
• Irrigation – Central Plains water, mix of pivots, rotar rainers and K-Lines.
The Details:
• 3 bedroom managers house.
• Local schooling at Hororata and Darfield.
Candidate background:
• You’ll be a great leader with the technical skill set to deliver excellent results and best practice management. Keeping a team on track with their targets, strong delegation skills and confidence in training/coaching others and getting consensus from the team, taking them all on the journey!
• Experience growing replacement heifers and breeding bulls.
• Eight years or more experience working on a dry stock farm.
• Experience in pasture, cropping (kale and fodder beet), cattle management including management and administering an animal health program set by the farms vet.
• Sound tractor and heavy machinery knowledge.
• Strong organisation skills, planning ability and record keeping including farming specific computer software and mobile apps.
• Experience and attention to detail with the KPI’s and weekly/monthly reporting, assisting with budgets for the next season.
• Exceptional communication skills translating goals, targets and KPI’s into everyday language and action.
• Leading compliance at all levels including environmental standards, animal welfare and H & S (walking the talk and implementing this on a daily basis at farm level).
If you would like to apply, please apply now by following the below link and clicking ‘Apply ’.
Reporting to the Group Operations Manager and part of the Senior Management Team, this is an exciting opportunity to join this highly productive business showing your previous pasture & supplement feed management, stock management and strong cost control experience all while managing a team of 4 full time staff and 3 casuals.
The Farm
• 1072ha effective, spread over 8 blocks, 2 “hubs”.
• Carrying 2200 R2 heifers and 2100 R1 heifers.
• 420 Breeding bulls.
• Contour flat.
• Irrigation – Central Plains water, mix of pivots, rotar rainers and K-Lines.
The Details:
• 3 bedroom managers house.
• Local schooling at Hororata and Darfield.
Candidate background:
• You’ll be a great leader with the technical skill set to deliver excellent results and best practice management. Keeping a team on track with their targets, strong delegation skills and confidence in training/coaching others and getting consensus from the team, taking them all on the journey!
• Experience growing replacement heifers and breeding bulls.
• Eight years or more experience working on a dry stock farm.
• Experience in pasture, cropping (kale and fodder beet), cattle management including management and administering an animal health program set by the farms vet.
• Sound tractor and heavy machinery knowledge.
• Strong organisation skills, planning ability and record keeping including farming specific computer software and mobile apps.
• Experience and attention to detail with the KPI’s and weekly/monthly reporting, assisting with budgets for the next season.
• Exceptional communication skills translating goals, targets and KPI’s into everyday language and action.
• Leading compliance at all levels including environmental standards, animal welfare and H & S (walking the talk and implementing this on a daily basis at farm level).
If you would like to apply, please apply now by following the below link and clicking ‘Apply ’.
Date Posted: 2024-11-14
