Performs routine tasks on a dairy farm such as herding and milking cattle.

Patrols, inspects and reports on the condition of livestock; provide livestock with feed and water; assist with maintaining the health and welfare of livestock: assist with calf rearing; musters and drives livestock to milking and between paddocks to ensure sufficient feed is available; washes and cleans udders, attaches milking machines and milks cows; cleans milking shed.

• Works outdoors and in dairy-milking sheds.
• Works in all weathers, often for long hours and carries out a wide range of seasonal animal health care tasks and general farm tasks.
• Carries out milking both early in the morning and late afternoon.

• Medium to heavy physical demand levels.
• Constantly stands and walks about the dairy shed at milking time and attaches milking machines to udders and carries out health and hygiene tasks required.
• Occasionally sits down when operating farm vehicles or machinery and undertaking repairs on small items.
• Occasionally stretches up or across when adjusting overhead equipment or when reaching under to place the milking cups on cows.
• Bends occasionally when completing many farm tasks and especially when carrying out preliminary hygiene tasks and placing milking cups on cows.
• Twisting of the body or neck may be required when driving and attaching milking machines to cows.
• Substantial contact with skin irritants or water is not constant, but there is major use of water and cleansing chemicals for hygiene and general dairy shed sanitising after milking.
• Heavy lifting, pulling or carrying is occasional as part of carrying out milking and other farm work. It can be necessary to push cows to get them into position.
• Repetitive hand and arm movements are frequent when milking cows.
• Driving of farm vehicles is occasional to frequent.
• The use of hand tools for fencing, animal health care, and milk shed work is frequent. Light engineering and mechanical equipment and tools are occasionally used for maintenance work.
• Mental skills necessary include animal-handling, crop production, administration, planning, and decision-making.

Nil (ANZSCO Skill Level 5). A Class 1 Driver Licence holder can operate a tractor with a Gross Laden Weight (GLW) of more than 4500kg but less than 18000kg if driven at a speed not exceeding 30km/h.

• There are opportunities for flexibility of movement but they are limited.
• Many seasonal tasks are performed intermittently but constantly for short periods (e.g. hay/silage).