About: 520 cows on 164 ha with 100 ha of support ground for silage and youngstock with lots of variety. Modern facilities with 40 herringbone parlour with cup removers, 535 cubicles and a brand new calving shed. High genetic merit crossbred herd calving 90% + in 6 weeks and calving lasting 10 weeks. Mainly grass based system with new paddock, water and roadways installed in the last 2 years. New unit set up this year with a 24 unit shed with cup removers. 180 cows on 59 ha. All calves are reared in hutches of 7 and moved onto larger mobs then. Sexed semen and some conventional semen is used while the rest of the cows get beef. Beef calves are reared for 3 - 4 weeks before being sold. Calves are moved onto OAD after 4 weeks. Start time is typically 7.30am/8 and finish by 5pm.

We encourage playing sport and/or hobbies and will be flexible with time off and milkings in order to suit time off farm. There are local rugby, tennis, golf, soccer and gaelic clubs in the vicinity with a small local town only 5 mins away and a larger town 10 mins away. The farm is based in the middle of Ireland and within short driving distance of Dublin (2hrs), Cork (2hrs), Limerick (1hr) and Galway (1hr30) so it’s a great opportunity to see plenty of Ireland and what it has to offer. 

Learning opportunities are encouraged with paid courses, discussion groups, travel and conferences. The team is a mixture of youth and experience which will provide plenty of opportunities to learn new skills. Whoever applies needs to have a willingness to learn, to have fun, take pride in their work and be willing to contribute to our team culture.

This role may suit someone who wants to work and travel or a couple who are looking for a change of scenery. We are more than happy to help with visa's such are working holiday or other.

We really value good people in our family run and welcome any queries or questions that you have about the role, the area or the farm itself

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Daily feeding of calves
• Monitoring performance and illness of calves
• Debudding and vaccinating
• Calving and caring for new born calves
• Tagging and DNA calves
• Dosing
• Weaning and weighing youngstock
• Recording Keeping
• Milking (Ocassionally)

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Some experience of calf rearing
• Good attitude and willing to learn
• Stockmanship skills
• Grassland Management
• Milking experience

Specific Requirements:

•  Drivers License

About:

Job Opportunity: Remote, Part-Time Role for Administrator Rural

Are you in the rural industry with dreams of building your own online side hustle? Do you value flexibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to work on your own terms? This role is perfect for motivated individuals who excel at multitasking and want to balance earning an income while pursuing their entrepreneurial aspirations.

About Brightside Collective:

Brightside Collective partners with a global organization dedicated to personal development, leadership training, and self-growth. Our mission is to empower individuals to unlock their potential and thrive in every area of life.

• Active in over 100 countries worldwide
• Delivering online programs focused on personal growth and development
• Hosting impactful virtual and in-person seminars

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage with clients to foster trust and long-term connections.
• Provide feedback and share insights with the management team.
• Follow our 3 step proven system.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings, events, and follow-ups.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• No Experience Needed: A willingness to learn and a commitment to success are all you need.
• Self-Motivation: Thrive independently and stay focused on your goals.
• Excellent Communication Skills: Build strong relationships and address challenges effectively.

Specific Requirements:

Why Join Us?

At Brightside Collective, we offer more than just a job; we provide a path to personal and professional growth within a supportive and flexible environment. Be part of a team that values your potential, supports your journey, and makes a positive impact worldwide.

Take charge of your career and join us in transforming lives—starting with your own!

When applying for this position you agree to receive communications via email/phone and message to organize our 1st interview  

About:
Janefield Dairy is a dairy farm in central northern Tasmania - YES Australia! Milking 1200 cows in a seasonal, pasture based system. Google us to find out more "Janefield Dairy", "Brian and Michele Lawrence".

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Milking
• Weed Management (spraying)
• Tractors if experienced

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  previous milking experience and tractor skills preferred but we will train the right person.
• Teamwork - we have an awesome young team, it is all about respect for each other and getting the job done!

Specific Requirements:

•  Physically fit, attention to detail, love large animals.

At Waka Tropics we value people before production, one of our staff members has moved on for medical reasons. This has opened up an awesome opportunity for an experienced farm assistant to fill a place within our small team.

We are looking for someone who is fit, hardworking, honest and had a driver’s licence and most importantly, reliable. He enjoyed our roster of 5 on 2 off roster from the end of mating, this allowed him to make the most of our fantastic location – 5 minutes from Colac bay and 15 minutes from Riverton. Great for diving, fishing and hunting. We have a school bus that runs by the house for primary and secondary school too.

Are you interested in filling these gumboots?

Nanak Dairies

Duties and Responsibilities: We are looking for a enthusiastic farm assistant for our dairy farm located at Bankside (10 minutes north of Rakaia) from December until Mid January to cover our staff on annual leave. Duties will include milking, getting cows in, spraying and general day to day farm work. We milk 1150 cows through a 50 bale rotary with ACR. Cows are split into 3 herds and 1 person milks 1 herd morning and afternoon.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Some dairy farm work experience essential.

Specific Requirements:

we run a 400 cow self contained farm with sheep beef and cropping also accompanying the business a big user of technology with halter , auto drafting and acrs in the 30 ashb makes it a one person operation to milk

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Milking
• Irrigation
• Weedcontrol
• tractor driving
• stock work

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  dealt with stock before
• able to milk or willing to learn

Specific Requirements:

•  must have drivers license

work available until mid January

We are looking for a dairy assistant to cover two neighbouring farms in the Edendale area. This could be the first step in a long and prosperous career in farming and a future as a farm owner.

We take the job of being good famers very seriously. Sure, the outcome is producing plenty of quality milk solids but we need to make sure the cows are well looked after. That means growing some good grass for them to feed on, milking and taking care of their general welfare. They're valuable team members and we look after them. Speaking of team members, you’ll be working with a few of the two legged kind too. So you’ll need to be a team player and get along with folk.

Then there’s the environment. We do things right here. So each farm has a plan and that’s the starting point. From there we make more improvements and focus on sustainable farming practices so we can be good custodians of the land.

We’ve some machinery and general farm maintenance that you’ll need to look after. Increasingly, technology is playing a part in farming and you’ll be exposed to that too.

We’ve got a track record of supporting personal growth and development. And we have a goal of seeing our team members progress through to farm ownership. So it goes without saying that we offer some great training opportunities, both on and off the farm.

You’ll be the type that likes to roll your sleeves up, get stuck in, challenge yourself and think differently. The type that’s smart, inquisitive and engaged. You’ll be an active person, energetic and approach work with a sense of fun and a real ‘can-do’ attitude. We also need you to be currently residing in NZ and be legally able to work in NZ.

Farm name is Pinedale, supply number 37420. We are sharemilkers with 780 xbred cows. 44 Bale rotary, pivot irrigation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Spray californian thistles, grub nodding thistles

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Experience with spray equipment is advantageous

Specific Requirements:

•  We would like someone to do a days spraying and/or grubbing as required between our dairy farm and run off

Career Opportunities – Southern Cross Horticulture

Location: Central Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Employment Type: Full-time

Positions Available: Orchard Supervisor, Orchard Cadet, Vine Manager

Reports To: Orchard Manager

About Southern Cross Horticulture:

Southern Cross Horticulture is a New Zealand family-owned business, specializing in the development, management, and production of world-class kiwifruit orchards for over 40 years. Our mission is to create and manage the best orchards in the world, while enhancing the lives of our team, customers, shareholders, and community. For more information, visit: www.southerncrosshorticulture.co.nz.

Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Teamwork, Relationships, and Attitude, and we expect all employees to live these values.

About the Roles:

We are currently offering three exciting roles: Orchard Supervisor, Orchard Cadet, and Vine Manager. Whether you’re looking to grow your career as a leader in orchard management, gain foundational skills in horticulture, or take on a hands-on operational role, we have opportunities for you.

Orchard Supervisor Role:

As an Orchard Supervisor, you will lead, train, and support a high-performing team of Horticultural Technicians to execute daily orchard operations. You’ll ensure quality standards are met, monitor productivity, and oversee compliance with health and safety regulations. This role is ideal for someone with leadership skills who is eager to take the next step in orchard management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervise a team in daily orchard tasks such as pruning, thinning, and spraying.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to specification and within budget.
• Maintain high safety standards and ensure team compliance with all protocols.
• Communicate with the Orchard Manager on team performance and progress.

Orchard Cadet Role:

The Orchard Cadet role offers a unique learning opportunity for those new to the industry or looking to grow their skills. You will assist with daily orchard tasks while receiving mentorship and on-the-job training. This is an ideal entry-level role for someone eager to develop a career in horticulture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Orchard Manager and team with orchard operations, including maintenance, harvesting, and equipment management.
• Engage in training and team supervision, contributing to team productivity.
• Uphold health and safety standards across the orchard.
• Learn and develop skills in kiwifruit orchard management through ongoing professional development.

Vine Manager Role:

As a Vine Manager, you’ll take a leadership role, managing the daily operations of the orchard and ensuring all tasks are completed to a high standard. You will work closely with the Orchard Manager to train teams, plan orchard activities, and maintain high-quality production standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the orchard, including team leadership, task execution, and resource management.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and uphold site cleanliness.
• Train and mentor teams, ensuring tasks are completed on time and to specification.
• Monitor and report on orchard performance, including labor, supplies, and equipment management.

What We’re Looking For Across All Roles:

• Passion for horticulture and a strong desire to grow within the kiwifruit industry.
• Excellence in completing tasks to the highest standard.
• Integrity to ensure work is done correctly and safely.
• Strong leadership and Teamwork skills, fostering collaboration and productivity.
• Strong Relationship-building skills with a focus on trust and communication.
• A positive Attitude and eagerness to learn and take on challenges.
• Physically fit and capable of working in all weather conditions.
• Valid driver’s license and the legal right to work in New Zealand.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary packages with room for career growth.
• Career development opportunities in a fast-growing, world-class company.
• Ongoing training and mentorship from industry leaders.
• A supportive and dynamic work environment that values personal and professional development.

If you’re passionate about horticulture and ready to take the next step in your career, Southern Cross Horticulture is the place for you. Apply today and become a part of a thriving team committed to excellence!

Applications close on 15 October 2024.

Orchard Manager – Southern Cross Horticulture

Location: Edgecumbe, Eastern Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To: Senior Orchard Manager

About Southern Cross Horticulture:

Southern Cross Horticulture is a New Zealand family-owned operation that has been planting, growing, and exporting kiwifruit for more than 40 years. Today, Southern Cross Horticulture is one of New Zealand’s largest and most successful orchard developers and producers of SunGold (G3 Kiwifruit). For more information, visit: https://www.southerncrosshorticulture.co.nz

Our mission is to create and manage the best kiwifruit orchards in the world. This serves our purpose of enhancing the lives of our team, customers, shareholders, and community. We pride ourselves on our core values: Excellence, Integrity, Teamwork, Relationships, and Attitude. These values are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to fostering a supportive and dynamic environment that promotes personal and professional growth.

About the Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Orchard Manager who is keen to develop their skills and grow within our business. As an Orchard Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the management of day-to-day 20 to 30 hectare orchard operations. This includes working alongside senior managers to plan and execute orchard tasks, train and lead seasonal teams, and ensure the highest standards of safety and quality are maintained.

Key Responsibilities:

- Team Support & Training: Assist in training, supervising, and leading seasonal teams to achieve daily productivity targets, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.

- Orchard Operations: Assist with the planning and execution of orchard tasks throughout the season, ensuring all work is completed to the highest quality standards, on time, and within budget.

- Health & Safety Compliance: Support the enforcement of health and safety protocols, including regular machinery checks, hazard reporting, and adherence to all company policies, such as the drug and alcohol policy.

- Resource & Equipment Management: Help manage orchard resources, ensuring all tools and machinery are in good working order and available when needed.

- Stakeholder Relationships: Build and maintain positive relationships with internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders to ensure smooth operations and timely problem-solving.

What We’re Looking For:

- A commitment to Excellence: Always strive to deliver high-quality results and improve on your best efforts.

- Strong Integrity: Do the right thing, even when no one is looking.

- Effective Teamwork: Work collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals and support a positive team environment.

- Ability to build strong Relationships: Develop trust with colleagues, contractors, and stakeholders.

- A positive Attitude: Approach every day with your best self, ready to take on challenges with resilience and determination.

- Physically fit and able to handle the demands of the role.

- Strong forward-planning and prioritisation skills.

- Valid NZ driver’s licence and legal right to work in New Zealand.

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary package.

- Excellent opportunities for career growth and advancement within a leading horticultural company.

- Ongoing training and professional development to help you grow your skills and knowledge.

- A supportive and dynamic work environment that values its employees.

If you are passionate about kiwifruit orchard management, thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and align with our values, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today with your CV and join our world-class team!

Applications will close on 20 September 2024.

Apply via by sending your resume and cover letter to marcela.amarante@schort.co.nz.

• We are looking for a relief milker for 4 weeks while one of our team is overseas. We milk 1050 cows through a 50 bale rotary. It would be both morning and afternoon milkings of one herd. We are located 5 mins from Dunsandel. Previous milking experience essential.

Our client Wydeacres Wagyu Ltd is a 207 ha farm in Kirwee, combining the grazing and finishing of wagyu stock along with an extensive and expanding cropping operation encompassing cultivation and on-farm cartage. In addition to the cropping, there are currently 240 wagyu stock on the property along with 1060 cattle in the 1 ha composting barn which is one of the largest grain finishing barns in New Zealand. 

The role:

We’re looking for a Farm Hand to join the team. The main responsibilities of the position involve driving tractors, loaders and rotorainer irrigation along with combining feedlot feeding with mixer wagon, feedlot bedding, animal management and youngstock grazing.

The role would suit a university student with availability during term time and a willingness to work full-time hours during the holidays. OR you could be in NZ on a Working Holiday Permit and looking for full-time work while you enjoy the lifestyle farming in Canterbury has to offer.

To be successful in the role the following attributes are essential:

·       Experience operating farm machinery is required and a key aspect of the role

·       Ability to do basic machinery maintenance

·       A calm and patient manner with stock

·       A current restricted driver’s licence at a minimum

·       A willingness to learn

There is some flexibility with hours of work which are expected to be approximately 40 per week depending on seasonal fluctuations.

Hourly pay rate is between $25 and $28 per hour depending on your experience. 

To express your interest in the position, please message us with a little bit of information about you and how your experience matches the role.

About:
Come to Ireland and travel Europe, with a 1 yr working holiday visa. Limerick family run dairy farm, 420 cows. Eircode/postcode V94HX27 . The farm is twenty minutes drive from Limerick city, and 5 minutes from Murroe village. There are a variety of gaa, soccer, rugby clubs in the area and many other sporting and social organisations. Limerick University Sports complex is 15 min away, which includes an Olympic size swimming pool. This area of Ireland is home to a lot of nature tourist attractions including Glenstal Abbey and Thomand park rugby stadium. Very good bus connections to Limerick. Shannon airport is 40 minutes away, with fantastic value flights to Europe. Top ebi (250)Xbred herd. All cows are wintered indoors in cubicle barns, milking through 24 herringbone. Seasonal calving like NZ model. Milking platform 160hec with all replacements reared on 40 and 20 hec runoffs. Most machinery work carried out my contractors. Ideal position for a couple.

Duties and Responsibilities:Responsibilities will cover milking (oad/tad), daily husbandry, some machinery operation, feed/grass allocation.

Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience and knowledge of all aspects of grassland/feed budgeting, dairy husbandry and breeding. Attention to detail and ability to work on one’s own initiative essential and as part of a team. 

Specific Requirements:

•  Seeking enthusiastic, ambitious people, experience helpful

Small Family Farm. 300 cow dairy farm. 24 aside herringbone shed. Close to Waianiwa.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Caring for our farm and our cows.
• Milking twice a day. Milking times flexible.
• Get cows in for milking and set-up new paddocks/breaks.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experienced in all things dairy farming.
• Common-sense.
• Able to make minor repairs/trouble-shooting if required.

Located halfway between Lumsden and Dipton.

We are milking 800cows through a twin pit herring bone shed. We are looking for another person to join our team. NOTE: This is a drive in position only.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•  All day to day dairy farm duties

Desirable Skills and Experience:

•  Milking experience

Specific Requirements:

•  Drive in position only

The Team at Fortuna are looking for a Lincoln Student either for a start into the amazing dairy industry, or to grow their networks and on farm skill set. This position has the potential to connect you with all things dairy in Southland, leading into the ability to exponentially grow your farming future.

Farming is not for the faint hearted, it takes guts & determination to succeed, and we can help you show you how we did it.

Take the time to look at our website, I've included a snippet below:

"Our people are the lifeblood of Fortuna. They keep the animals happy and are skilled custodians of the land. They make sure milk production is high, innovation is constant and we move forward with a culture of hard-work and appreciation for each other's efforts. Because it’s a team effort. We do the right thing and have a great time doing it too.

We are a Dairy Farming Business with 22 Dairy Farms across Southland. We have a mixture of managed farms and contract milked farms. People are at the heart of our success and we are always on the hunt for good people."

If this job post is of interest to you, then please contact us. Any level of skill set and experience will be considered, we are simply looking for someone with a great attitude towards people, cows and grass. We know that this combined with a strong work ethic, common sense and a sense of humor will lead to job satisfaction & success.

https://fortunagroup.net.nz/

We are a 400 cow farm milking through a 34ash with automatic cup removers. Looking for a relief milker to cover staff days off during weekdays.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Starting the plant
• Milking
• Washing shed after milking

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Being able to assist in milking
• Milking experience preferable

Specific Requirements:

• It’s a drive in position.
• No accomodation available.
• Work available 2 to 4 days during weekdays.

If you like looking after a herd of cows and making sure they are well fed and cared for this Job maybe for you.

1100 cow farm in Rakaia area with very good housing. Farm is modern & very tidy & is a dream to work on.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Milking your herd 400 cows,
• shifting fences
• Feeding out using very good equipment
•  

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Riding 2 wheelers
• Milking cows
• Vat wash and general shed maintenance 

Specific Requirements:

•  Full drivers license
• 2 years dairy farm experience
• No health issues
• Must be able to milk unassisted.