As Cook & Domestic you will be the heartbeat of a thriving outback station! Join a welcoming, hardworking crew where your cooking skills and positive energy are at the centre of daily life.
Cook delicious meals for a team of 15–18 people and become the heart of the homestead.
Manage household and domestic duties across two properties in a supportive, team-oriented environment.
Work on a remote cattle station with opportunities to learn new skills and grow.
Located in the vicinity of Richmond North Queensland, this remote cattle station is home to a tight-knit team with a strong focus on culture, respect, and communication. The station thrives on teamwork, professionalism, and a supportive, friendly environment. You’ll enjoy the beauty of outback life doing what you do best!
This role is pivotal to the station, reporting directly to the Station Manager. As the station Cook & Domestic, you will nourish and care for the crew, ensuring smooth daily operations while managing domestic tasks, animal care, and assisting with butchering and food stock management.
Prepare daily meals for 15+ people including breakfast, smoko, and dinner, creating a warm and welcoming environment.
Perform household duties across two houses: vacuuming, mopping, dusting, cleaning windows, bathrooms, and vehicles.
Carry out gardening and property maintenance tasks including mowing, raking, pruning, watering, spraying, rolling the tennis court, and managing lawn sprinklers.
Assist with food stocktake, ordering, and butchering, while caring for small animals (poddies, birds, Maremma).
Cooking experience, ideally in a remote station environment.
Strong organisational skills, ability to work independently or as part of a team, and good communication skills.
Commitment to a full-year role; reliability is essential for crew wellbeing.
Open-minded, willing to learn, and able to maintain high standards in both cooking and domestic duties.
Driver’s license desirable but not essential.
Above-award day rate (less tax) plus superannuation.
Board & keep included, private single accommodation with air-conditioning.
Younger, friendly crew, with a zero-drug policy.
TO APPLY: Click the APPLY NOW button and you will be redirected to the AUSAG RURAL WEBSITE where you can apply for this position.
QUESTIONS: To be directed to Caitlin at AUSAG RURAL 0437 977 101.
Here at AUSAG RURAL, we understand the challenges rural Australian companies may be up against when faced with the prospect of not only finding suitable employees - but retaining them. AUSAG RURAL was established with a primary vision – to provide long term, permanent recruitment solutions to farmers and graziers within rural areas of Australia. Because we only recruit for agriculturally focused vacancies within Australia, our success is evident within the database we keep and market we encompass.
AUSAG RURAL employs a team of passionate, agriculturally supported Rural Recruitment Assistants all based remotely within the Southern & Western Downs regions of Queensland. AUSAG RURAL will personalise our recruitment methods to your requirements with our intention of creating a short-list of suitable candidate profiles to consider in anticipation of successfully filling your positions vacant with the right employees.
As a client of AusAG Rural you provide the specifications of any position vacant. From here, you leave the work in our experienced and capable hands to take care of the administrative recruitment process of outsourcing the advertising, initial interview and referencing of your staff. You can expect to receive a short list of suitably experienced candidate profiles for review in anticipation of successfully filling your position.
You may list your position with AusAG Rural for FREE – nothing to pay until our candidate commences work! AusAG Rural is completely focused first and foremost on unifying a successful relationship between potential jobseekers and our clients alike, therefore we would be happy to write and list your advertisement for FREE on our website, social pages, and other available advertising platforms we utilise under the AusAG Rural company insignia.
AusAG Rural provides you with a very competitive and reasonably structured schedule of fees containing generous terms and replacement periods. We are certain our fee structure will be appreciated by you as we pride ourselves on that transparent approach when it comes to not only fees, but communication in general.
You will have complete peace of mind knowing what the cost is from the very beginning. AusAG Rural are focused on longevity and stability when unifying staff relationships and therefore understand staff are needed for a longer more permanent arrangement in most cases. Depending on the job, you may only need to employ staff for a short period of time. Perhaps it’s harvest and you need a chaser bin or header driver? Peak cattle mustering season and you need a station hand for a few weeks? Whatever the scenario, AusAG Rural can offer assistance for those short-term staff with the fee structure incorporating a level of fair, flexible and reasonable terms, including a short-term replacement clause.
