Farm Operative
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Permanent Full Time | |
Sainchuntas poist
Basic Function
To operate as part of a team in carrying out general farm operations within Ballyhaise Agricultural College and to support the college in carrying out the full range of farm enterprises including educational activities and on-farm research projects.
Background
Ballyhaise Agricultural College is an education and training college in County Cavan. In order to support the education delivery and skills training the runs a mixed farm with 140 dairy cows, 35 suckler cows, 100 heifers and cattle and 200 ewes. The college has developed close links with Dundalk Institute of Technology. It carries out research on the dairy unit lead by Teagasc Moorepark.
Cuspóirí an Phoist
- Carry out day to day operations on the college farm.
- Tractor driving operations with large scale machinery.
- Sprayer, fertilizer spreader and slurry operations.
- Shepparding skills looking after the college flock.
- General animal husbandry and monitoring of animal health and welfare.
- Milking the dairy herd.
- Setting up of temporary fences to implement the grazing plan.
- Calving and lambing supervision.
- Calf rearing.
- Maintaining Biosecurity and Biodiversity around the college farm.
- General farm maintenance and fencing and plumbing.
- Assisting with college events and open days.
- Supervise placement students and external contract/agency farm staff as required.
- Assisting with research measurements as part of on-farm research projects.
- To assist management and administrative staff in achieving good governance and risk management through co-operation and adherence to administrative procedures and practices.
- To fully co-operate with the provisions made for ensuring the health, safety and welfare of oneself, fellow staff and non-Teagasc staff and co-operate with management in enabling Teagasc to comply with legal obligations, including full compliance with the responsibilities outlined in the Safety Statement.
- To assist Teagasc in meeting the commitments of the Quality Customer Service Charter and Action Plan.
- To actively participate in the annual business planning and Performance Management Development System (PMDS) processes.
- Fully co-operate with the provisions made for ensuring the health, safety and welfare of themselves, fellow staff and non-Teagasc staff and co-operate with management in enabling Teagasc to comply with legal obligations. This includes full compliance with the responsibilities outlined in the Safety Statement.
- Such other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
* This job specification is intended as a guide to the general range of duties and is intended to be neither definitive nor restrictive. It will be reviewed with the post-holder from time to time.
Scileanna atá riachtanach
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As this role will involve driving vehicles, candidates must satisfy and continue to satisfy during employment with Teagasc, legal requirements to drive a car unaccompanied on Irish public roads. |
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Eligibility
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This is an open public competition. Should a current serving Teagasc staff member be successful in their application through open public competition for this post, their current contract of employment with Teagasc will come to an end on taking up this post. |
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