We are currently seeking a Feedlot Livestock Supervisor for our Brindley Park Feedlot near Roma, QLD.
Reporting to the Livestock Manager/Feedlot 2IC at Brindley Park Feedlot, you’ll become an integral part of the feedlot leadership team. Brindley Park’s current carrying capacity is 20,000 standard cattle units, ranging from fed Wagyu through to mid fed export cattle and a range of feeding programs.
With development approval in place, planned expansion ensures career growth and progression opportunities.
Located 30 minutes from Roma
Australian owned and operated cattle and beef industry leader
Job stability, security and progression
Brindley Park Feedlot, conveniently located just 30 minutes from Roma, has carrying capacity of 20,000 standard cattle units, with diverse cattle types from long fed Wagyu through to mid fed export cattle and a range of feeding programs, plus development approval to double the capacity, there are plenty of growth and development opportunities to come!
You’ll love a fast-paced environment where you’ll provide hands-on supervision to the livestock team of 14, including mentoring and coaching senior team members.
You’ll have broad responsibility for all aspects of day-to-day livestock handling and processing activities that includes:
Providing on the job training to staff, competency assessments and competency sign offs
Monitoring work, health & safety standards, ensuring safe work practices are adhered to and that hazards and risks are proactively reported and managed
Ensuring the highest standards of animal health and welfare practices and procedures are maintained at all times
Managing feedlot horse plant including horse assessments/suitability, shoeing, dental, chiropractic, veterinary, feeding & nutrition programs
Completing general maintenance activities including welding, water, cables and basic machinery servicing
Ensuring accurate collection, recording and integrity of livestock data
You’re passionate about livestock and have well developed cattle handling and horsemanship skills, experience and knowledge. This, together with a genuine interest in coaching and mentoring others to develop their skills, you’ll bring:
Extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience in cattle processing within a feedlot environment including arrivals, induction, hospital/health, drafting and loading out activities
Effective leadership and team management ability
In depth knowledge of livestock health, and husbandry techniques and treatments
Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of animal welfare
Understanding of work, health & safety and the ability to manage a safe place of work
Sound written communication & numeracy
Attention to detail
Computer literacy and experience in livestock data systems
Manual Driver’s licence
Gun licence or the ability to obtain one
It’s a perfect opportunity for a career driven well-established livestock supervisor / head stock person / leading hand to make their next move!
We’re proud of our horse culture and you’ll enjoy the annual company camp draft and challenge event, horse breeding programs and horsemanship clinics. You’ll also be well rewarded with:
Competitive salary to meet experience
Annual incentive bonus scheme
Air-conditioned 2 bedroom cottage
Beef, utilities & wifi
Paid leadership development courses
Participation at industry events and networking opportunities
Exposure and expert guidance from a range of industry specialists, such as animal nutritionists, veterinarians, cattle handlers and horsemanship trainers
Employee Assistance Program for you and your immediate family
Flu Vaccinations
Career progression opportunities throughout ACC’s integrated supply chain
Make your next move your best yet and apply now to join a 100% Australian and family owned and operated, industry leader. Come join ACC where no two days are the same and the opportunities are endless.
Australian Country Choice are the largest, family and Australian owned fully integrated beef supply chain. You get security that comes with a progressive pastoral operation along with the support and personal interest that comes with being a family business.
Australian Country Choice is dedicated to the best-practice supply of high-quality meat products to domestic and export markets.
Our operations encompass everything from cattle breeding, backgrounding and lot feeding to beef primary processing and multi-specie further processing, value adding, retail packing and distribution.
OUR BUSINESS
Norm Lee and his family established Leeson Pty Ltd in 1960 and purchased their first cattle station, Brindley Park, in 1968. Trevor and Keri Lee later formed Australian Country Choice (ACC).
Today, the ACC Group exists as the world’s largest family-owned, vertically integrated cattle and beef supply chain organisation.
Our whole-of-chain operations include seedstock production, cattle breeding, backgrounding, farming and lot-feeding to beef primary processing and multi-specie further processing, value-adding, retail packing and distribution.
Our group of companies is dedicated to the best practice supply of high-quality meat products to domestic and export markets.
While ACC Group has specialised in producing short-fed, grain-finished cattle and beef, we are starting to diversify our supply chain to include producing high-quality long-fed cattle, such as Wagyu and Black Angus, to further service the demands of customers in the premium beef market.
MISSION
Operate an ethical and sustainable business in partnership with our producers, suppliers and customers, achieving industry best practice in environmental sustainability, animal welfare, beef production, meat processing, beef value-adding, employee safety and wellbeing, and customer satisfaction.
VISION
Be recognised by our suppliers, customers, peers and employees as a global leader in meat production and processing, and value-adding of beef and lamb products by providing sustainably grown, high-quality food products.
OUR CORE VALUES
Loyalty is at the heart of everything we do. It harks from the Lee family and it is particularly present in our people.
Change is not for change’s sake—we value beneficial change that improves our business.
We value truth and transparency—we need this to collaborate and trust each other, and to achieve our full potential.
We value personal ownership. We take responsibility for ourselves, our relationships, our time management, our workspaces and tools. We are honest and full of integrity, and this maximises our contribution.
We value human life. The lives of every member of our team are of equal value and every person who enters our site should leave our site in good health. Some of our team members have more dangerous jobs than others, and we all work harder to ensure they stay safe. We also value the lives of all humans, including our customers and their customers whose safety relies on this value.
We know our customers keep us in business, which ensures our jobs. We know our customers have their own customers who include our friends, our families and other people we don’t know.
