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Looking for your next challenge? Join McLean Farms as a Biosecurity & Animal Welfare Technician within our Poultry team. This role plays a critical part in maintaining the health and well-being of our birds by supporting farm teams, ensuring compliance with welfare and biosecurity standards, and helping to drive continuous improvement across our operations.

Our Values

At McLean Farms, we’re proud of our team and the work we do.
Our values help guide how we work together:

We Care – We nurture our people, animals, environment, workplace, and community.
We Are One Team – We work together towards a common goal in a respectful and effective manner.
We Aim for Excellence – We strive to improve continuously.
We Find a Way – We work together to find solutions to every challenge.
We Do the Right Thing – We make decisions and choose behaviours based on what is right and what is wrong.

About the Role

In this role, you will travel across our poultry sites to ensure safe, consistent, and compliant operations. You’ll collaborate closely with our Biosecurity & Animal Welfare Manager and Farm Managers to support best practices. Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the implementation of biosecurity and animal welfare programs across farms
• Conducting routine audits and inspections of facilities and processes
• Preparing reports, identifying risks, and following up on corrective actions
• Monitoring flock health and escalating concerns promptly
• Helping standardise procedures and documentation across all sites
• Assisting with training farm personnel on welfare and biosecurity compliance
• Maintaining accurate and detailed activity records

What We’re Looking For

• Excellent communication, training, and coordination skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify potential risks
• Sound judgement and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work both independently and within a team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and record-keeping systems
• Flexibility to travel between farm sites regularly. This role will require interstate travel.

What You’ll Get in Return

• A supportive and collaborative environment where your work truly matters
• Training and ongoing development in a specialised field
• The opportunity to make a direct impact on bird welfare and business performance
• Job stability within a respected Australian agribusiness
• Team perk: two dozen free eggs every fortnight from McLean Farms

If this sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and take the next step in your career with McLean Farms.

To learn more about McLean Farms and what we do, please visit our website: www.mcleanfarms.au.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Australia to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

You must not have any birds, pigs or poultry at home, and you must not regularly come into contact with birds, pigs or poultry in order to work at McLean Farms.

Please ensure that you have read the Bio-Security Document on the right-hand side.

To proceed with employment, shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a Pre-employment functional assessment and Drug and Alcohol testing.