Poultry farm worker role (minimum 30 hours/week) involving caring for birds, ensuring food and water, checking health, collecting and sorting eggs, and maintaining farm conditions. Requires physical fitness, passing a drug test, and submitting a CV. Duties also include cleaning, maintenance, and following biosecurity and animal welfare standards.
Full job description
A poultry farm worker assists in daily operations on the farm. The job involves working with livestock carrying out daily checks to ensure our flocks are healthy and well looked after. Some maintenance work, cleaning and other general farm duties are also involved.
Minimum 30 hours per week guaranteed.
- Applicants must be physically fit.
- Applicants must pass pre-employment drug test.
- Applicants must provide a CV.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure birds have access to food and water.
- Walk through the house to Identify sick or injured birds.
- Utilize proper biosecurity standards when entering and exiting houses.
- On layer farms, assist with egg collection, washing and sorting.
- On layer farms, assist with putting eggs in cartons.
- Control temperature of houses for ultimate bird comfort.
- Conduct maintenance on the house and watering/heating system as needed.
- Control house lighting to meet bird needs.
- Maintain high standards of animal welfare.
