Dairy Unit Assistant

LKL Services Ltd; Dorking; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobile home on farm

Job summary

LKL Services Ltd seeks a hands-on dairy farming assistant near Dorking. You will join a family team managing a 270-cow herd, calving year-round, with a high milk yield. The role offers training, personal growth, and a supportive work environment on a well-equipped multi-site operation.

An attractive remuneration and a mobile home on farm grounds are included, with the potential to develop new skills and career progression within the business.

Qualifications

• Basic grounding in dairy farming.
• Willingness to learn new skills and training available.
• Comfortable working as part of a farming team.

Responsibilities

• Varied role covering key dairy tasks.
• Work in a 24:24 parlour with in-parlour feeding.
• Care for cows in well-laid-out housing and sand bed cubicles.

Skills

Dairy farming basics

Teamwork

Job description

If you have a basic grounding in dairy farming and seek a varied role within a team, we have an opportunity for you to join a committed family business, working on a well-equipped, multi-site progressive farming business near Dorking. This unit is set to run with approximately 270 high yielding Holstein/Friesian cows, calving throughout the year with 240 cows consistently in milk. The herd is TMR fed with additional feeding in the parlour; yields are around 9500 litres per cow. Key points to the position are:

• A varied role, covering a number of important tasks.
• Good working environment, central to which is a 24:24 parlour with in parlour feeding.
• Well, laid out cow accommodation with sand bed cubicles.
• The opportunity for ongoing training for new skills, responsibility and to achieve your own results to be proud of.
• The chance to work with an enthusiastic and dedicated farming family and team.

• We are also able to offer with this position a very competitive remuneration/days off package, and a decent mobile home free from rent rates and council tax on the farm grounds.

*No overseas applicants without a work visa*