Dairy farm manager

Overview

Languages

• English

Education

• College/CEGEP

Experience

• 1 year to less than 2 years
• On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

• Work site environment
• Goat farming
• Hay farming
• Other grain farming
• Dusty
• Hot
• Noisy
• Odours
• Outdoors
• Dairy
• Grain, oil and forage crop
• Livestock

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Coordinate planting and cultivating activities
• Direct agricultural crops clipping activities
• Examine milking operations to ensure adherence to safety regulations or standards
• Handling animals
• Manage feed inventory activities
• Milking goats
• Monitoring animal health
• Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
• Manage overall operation of farm
• Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
• Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
• Maintain financial and production records
• Perform general farm duties
• Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
• Administer treatments as prescribed by veterinarian
• Feed and tend animals
• Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
• Vaccinate animals to prevent and treat diseases
• Experience and specialization
• Equipment and machinery experience
• Bulk handling system
• Feeding and watering system
• Milking system (automated)
• Storage and silage system
• Tractor
• Area of work experience
• Animal breeding

Additional information

• Work conditions and physical capabilities
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Handling heavy loads
• Large workload
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Work under pressure

Personal suitability

• Initiative
• Organized
• Values and ethics

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• On-site housing options