**What Aurora Dairies can offer you**
Aurora Dairies are currently seeking a Farm Manager for a dairy farm in Winnindoo, located 5 minutes from Heyfield and 25 minutes from Traralgon or Sale. The farm is approximately 550ha in total area with 174ha under pivot irrigation and 150ha in flood irrigation.
Currently milking 1200 cows, through a 50 bail rotary shed with ACR's and auto teat spray. The farm is predominantly pasture based with grain fed in the dairy and silage fed out on the feed pad. The farm also has a run off area where the cows are sent when they are dry and we also make supplementary feed off it. This farm is 80% Spring and 20% Autumn calving starting in August and February with cross breed cows.
Accommodation is available in a family home along with a vehicle included in the package and there could be opportunities for employment for your partner on one of our nearby farms, if required.
As Farm Manager you will need to be a team player creating an environment where people can develop to help achieve desired outcomes. You will have well developed pasture management and animal husbandry skills and understand the demands of large-scale dairy farming. Safety will be at the forefront of everything you do.
**Reporting to the Regional Operations Manager, you will**:
- Ensure safe operations across the property through the implementation of our Safety Management System
- Manage and direct staff to achieve positive outcomes
- Exhibit sound and accurate judgement to ensure the highest standards of animal health and welfare
- Report on farm plans and inventory
- Paddock inspection estimating quality and availability of pastures
- Implement stock rotations and contribute to plans for future feed budgets
- Feed management to support achievement of budgeted production targets
- Monitor and maintain water and fencing
- Maintain accurate stock, treatment, and feeding records
- Operate and maintain plant and equipment
- Coordinate contractors for required fertiliser, hay/silage making activities
- Implement sustainable farming practices
- Adhere to company policies and safe work procedures.
**Qualifications**:
**The desired skills and experience for this opportunity are**:
You will be an energetic, and self-motivated individual with strong cattle and pasture management skills, who is keen to get stuck in and get the job done. You will work well on your own but equally work in very well amongst a team - we have 19 dairy farms in this regional group (17 in Gippsland and 2 in Northern Victoria) and our Farm Managers meet regularly as a team for peer group meetings to share advice and support each other to achieve goals.
You will have:
- Previous experience as a Dairy Farm Manager in a large-scale livestock operation
- People management skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and direct peers and work as a valuable team member
- Reporting and computer skills
- Demonstrated ability to follow and implement budgeted outcomes to optimise profitability
- Demonstrated experience in the management and handling of livestock
- Pasture based farming experience
- Side by Side and tractor operation skills
- Initiative to complete operational tasks that contribute to the team
- Ability to support and implement safe work procedures
- Willingness to learn new systems of work, we are open to new ways of farming and therefore employ innovative managers who are willing to try new technology.
**Additional Information**:
**What makes Aurora Dairies unique?**
- A true **safety focus**across the entire company. _Safety first, what's the rush. _Aurora Dairies was the WorkSafe Victoria 2021 winner of the Commitment to Workplace Health and Safety on a Farm Award.
- A strong focus on fatigue management and work hours. We pride ourselves on **work-life balance.**:
- Opportunities to **grow your career**through professional development and other training opportunities. Learning and development of our people is a strong focus at all levels of the organisation.
- An organisation that has made commitments to **sustainability**and is putting that into action.
- Being part of an organisation of which **integrity, trust and collaboration**are their core values.
**_Please note, we may only make contact with you if your profile is suitable to the requirements of this position. Applicants without full Australian working rights cannot be considered for this role._