Farm Manager

Apprise Consulting Ltd; Logan City; On-site; AUD 72,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Eagle (Rural) Pty Ltd is seeking a Farm Manager for its Queensland poultry facilities, including Gleneagle and Silverdale. Recent and extensive poultry experience is essential to lead day-to-day farm operations and supervise staff.

Responsibilities include welfare of stock, shed maintenance, feeding, reporting, and production planning to meet contracts and market demand. This permanent, full-time role offers supervision, on-site leadership, and competitive remuneration with superannuation.

Qualifications

• Recent and extensive poultry experience essential.
• Ability to lead and supervise staff.
• Able to manage time and production planning.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the excellent welfare of stock
• Organise and conduct farming operations such as maintaining sheds & surrounding areas, water supply system and equipment
• Preparation of sheds for batches of chickens
• Daily operations, feed ordering and movement of livestock
• Maintain cleanliness, maintenance and stock control
• Identify and control environmental toxins, weeds, pests, and diseases
• Daily and weekly reporting
• Supervision of existing staff and training new staff
• Managing business capital, monitoring market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand

Skills

Poultry handling

Mechanical skills

People management

Job description

Job Type

Permanent position | Full time position

Job Description

Blue Eagle (Rural) Pty Ltd is an Australian private company that operates poultry and chicken farming facilities in Queensland, Australia (including locations in Gleneagle and Silverdale). They manage large-scale broiler chicken shed operations. Are you a leader who will work in the sheds, with the livestock, checking the checker & lead the team?

Do you have poultry livestock skills, mechanical skills and good people skills? Can you manage your own time and the time of your people? Are you able to achieve results, take pride from those results and dedicate yourself as if the farm was your own?

Recent and extensive poultry experience is essential. This position is seeking a Farm Manager. This position is available for a competent and highly motivated person who can effectively assist in the management of the day-to-day functions of a farm.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring the excellent welfare of stock
• Organise and conduct farming operations such as maintaining sheds & surrounding areas, water supply system and equipment
• Preparation of sheds for batches of chickens
• Daily operations, feed ordering and movement of livestock
• Maintain cleanliness, maintenance and stock control
• Identify and control environmental toxins, weeds, pests, and diseases
• Daily and weekly reporting
• Supervision of existing staff and training new staff
• Managing business capital, monitoring market activity and planning production to meet contract requirements and market demand

Salary

Salary: $79,499 per annum + Super