Animal Attendant at Agricultural Research Council

• The ARC-Animal Production (ARC-AP) seeks to appoint a highly skilled, experienced, and dynamic persons to the following positions at Glen, Free State province:

Job Description

Animal care

• Animal handling.
• Feeding cattle by hand.
• Cleaning feed wastage.
• Loading and off-loading animals.
• Monitor feed intake.

Animal care facilities

• To utilize and maintain facilities, apparatus and equipment in cost effective manner.
• Cleaning of kraals daily.
• Filling kraals with gravel.
• Fixing of kraals.
• Cutting lawn, and solving water problems.
• Timeous reporting of malfunctioning of gates water reticulation (checking, fixing, reporting) – General tasks.

Weighing and Record keeping offeed and feed consumption

• Control over feed equipment, feed and feed recording.
• Compliance to occupational health, and safety.
• Visible use and compliance with health and safety standards.
• Daily inspection of cattle and monitoring health status.
• Treatment if required.

Loading and offloading of animals

• Offloading of feed
• See that the feeding system is maintained

Job Requirements

• Grade 12 plus 3 years relevant experience or Grade 10 plus 5 years relevant experience or 15 years relevant experience.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 16 MARCH 2026