About the role

This is a beef and sheep farm position involving stock management, yard work, husbandry tasks, pasture management, infrastructure maintenance, and machinery operation across a working farm.

Key responsibilities

- Moving and mustering stock, mostly on a motorbike and quad with working dogs

- Yard work: drafting, weighing, loading and unloading trucks

- Cattle husbandry: ear tagging, marking calves, vaccinating, drenching, weaning, and helping with preg testing and AI programs

- Sheep husbandry: lamb marking, crutching, drenching, jetting, vaccinating

- Keeping accurate records in Mobble

- Lambing and calving rounds in late winter and spring, often in cold, wet weather

- Rotational grazing and paddock moves under the farm's grazing plan

- Feeding out hay, silage and grain over winter and through the autumn feed gap

- Assisting with pasture renovation, sowing, and weed spraying

- Fencing,



including electric fencing, plus gates, yards and laneways; maintaining troughs, tanks, pumps and dams; upkeep of vehicles, bikes and machinery

About you

- Manual car licence is expected

- Tractor or loader ticket, ChemCert (Farm Chemical Users course), HR truck licence and CFA membership are a plus

- Positive attitude

- Physical fitness and a willingness to get stuck in

- Following WHS rules: PPE, quad and bike safety, chemical handling, and secure work around stock and machinery

- Reliability, initiative, and care for gear and animals

- Taking direction well and working in a small team, family-run

- Keeping records of treatments, withholding periods (LPA/NVD compliance), stock numbers and rainfall, and reporting problems early

📌 Farm hand (Dunkeld)
🏢 Devondale Family Trust
📍 Dunkeld