**The Benefits**:
- Start: ASAP
- $25.41 per hour + Pastoral Award - Level 1 (Casual)
- Duration: 12 Months
- Poultry farm hand duties
- One hour away from Toowoomba
- Variety of roles
Our client is an industry leading agribusiness with sophisticated poultry operations located in Millmerran and surrounds. They are currently looking to fill 18 casual poultry positions across their farming sites.
You are required to work in poultry environment where dust and the smell of livestock is present. Not afraid of getting your hands dirty, you will be comfortable working with live and deceased birds; all animals must be handled gently and compassionately. You will be a team player who is physically fit and more than able to handle heavy lifting.
You will be paying under pastoral award - Level 1, an hourly rate of $25.41 per hour, and 1 year contract with an average minimum of 38 hours per week.
**Key duties include**:
- Poultry attendant labouring - involves frequent bending, lifting and standing for long periods
- Egg Collecting
- Vaccinating chickens
- Poultry relocating (catching and handling chickens, moving chickens in cages on trolleys)
- Pack, grade, and pulp eggs
- Completing relevant paperwork correctly
- Cleaning of site (using a gurney and cleaning, shoveling and manual labour)
- Following hygiene and safe work procedures
**Key Skills & Experience**
To be considered for the roles, it's important you are committed to maintaining animal welfare standards and meet the following criteria:
- Comfortable working in a livestock environment
- Good communication skills and able to follow instructions
- No asthma or dust allergies
- Live locally or be happy to relocate to Millmerran
- Physically fit and comfortable in carrying out labour intensive duties
- Comfortable working in direct contact with poultry in a smelly environment
- Able to follow directions and work unsupervised whilst showing high levels of initiative
- A team player and happy working with a multicultural team
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