Dairy Worker job with arable experience - Wales

4Xtrahands Limited; Wales; Sur place; GBP 18 000 - 24 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

4Xtrahands Limited is seeking a proactive all-rounder to join their small team on an organic dairy unit. The role involves working with robotic milking systems, cows and youngstock, and performing daily routines and record keeping.

Duties include maintenance of robots and sheds, calf rearing, grazing management, and extensive use of touch-screen interfaces for fertility and herd management apps. Weekend rotation and holidays apply; employment is for the owner-farmer operation.

Qualifications

• Experience in dairy farming and robot milking is desirable but not essential.
• Competence with basic IT and touch-screen interfaces.
• Ability to keep accurate farm records and follow routines.

Responsabilités

• Clean and maintain robotic milking units and shed equipment.
• Assist with AI selection, vet requests, and foot trimming as needed.
• Tag and rear calves; monitor health and welfare during shifts.
• Maintain accurate daily records and data entry.
• Grazing management and pasture rotation oversight.
• Operate tractors and feeding equipment during the growing season.

Connaissances

Dairy farming

Tractor driving

IT skills

Accurate record keeping

Willingness to learn

Outils

AFFIMILK

UNIFORM

Herd management app

Description du poste

We are looking for an enthusiastic all-rounder to join our small team.

Our organic dairy unit is fully robotic so no milking, tractor scraping or feeding milking cows.

Working closely with cows and youngstock you will take care of the day to day routines and jobs associated with an organic herd.

Milking numbers range from 95 to 135 depending on time of the year.

Duties will include:

• Cleaning and maintenance of robots, shed equipment and fences etc
• Selection for AI, vet and foot trimming.
• Tagging and Rearing of calves
• Accurate record keeping
• Grazing management
• Checking health and welfare of all stock when on duty
• Cleaning cubicles and bedding with sawdust machine daily plus bedding straw yards with straw spreader.
• Extensive use of touch screen controlled equipment - Fertility (AFFIMILK) management app (UNIFORM) and herd management app as primary interfaces

Tractor driving tasks involve:

• Feeding up, bedding down and cleaning out with materials handler and other equipment
• During the growing season - rolling, tedding, rowing up, topping, bale carting, grain handling and associated tasks

We have 3 Fullwood milking robots, a Joz scraper and a Trioliet WP2 Triomatic feeding system. You will be working with the farmer owner. Every other weekend off. Statutory holidays. Employed.

Skills and experience required:

• Dairy farming - milking robot experience desirable but not essential
• Tractor driving / machine handling
• Accurate record keeping, and IT skills
• Enthusiastic to learn about new systems and technology