Agricultural Technician

Aurora Dairies are currently seeking multiple Agricultural Technicians in the Gippsland and Northern Victoria region, Victoria. 

The successful candidates will have a passion for the dairy industry and have experience in assisting the management team in managing a dairy operation. The successful candidates will have demonstrated skills and experience in the following areas:

• Use understanding of animal anatomy to watch for optimum insemination conditions, store semen to perform artificial insemination and clean all equipment to ensure sanitary breeding practices.
• Provide advice on breeding selection and techniques including maintaining and evaluating records of all insemination history, as well as report regularly and punctually to the operations manager on the breeding activity of the farm.
• Collecting, collating and interpreting livestock data for record keeping and research in line with Aurora Dairies data collection processes and procedures.
• Plan slaughtering and other aspects of production processes, whilst ensuring animals are handled humanely.
• Assist in controlled breeding experiments to develop improved livestock strains and artificially inseminate livestock for breeding purposes and assist with calving, if required.
• Proactively identifying, recording and communicating any abnormal animal behaviour. For example, abnormal quarters, udders, mastitis, lame cows, bloating, heat detection, staggering, etc. along with identifying harmful pathogenic micro-organisms, insects, parasites, or fungal infection and perform the proper treatment and controlling methods.
• Isolating and drafting cows.
• Operating the cattle crush in a safe and competent manner.
• Treating cows and arranging the supply of drugs, vaccines and other chemicals, as well as administering veterinary drugs under the direction of your manager, if required.
• Recording accurate and timely treatment data, including withholding periods.