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Work History
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Volunteer
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Bradley Mckinnon

Murringo,NSW

Summary

Results-driven Farm Manager with extensive experience at Wheeler Greyhound Kennels, excelling in livestock management and budget oversight. Proven leadership in enhancing farm productivity and implementing cost-reduction strategies. Skilled in operating heavy machinery and ensuring safety compliance, while fostering strong vendor relationships and optimizing operational efficiency.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

FARM MANAGER

Wheeler Greyhound Kennels
Murringo, NSW
04.2022 - Current
  • Managed farm productivity, directed contractors, coordinated financial reports and budgets, cultivated vendor relationships, and executed various additional tasks.
  • Livestock work supporting 1,500 breeding ewes, 200 head of Angus cattle, and 300-500 trade steers, including but not limited to animal welfare checks, calf and lamb marking, drenching, and vaccinating. Owner transport of livestock to various sales and feedlots.
  • Planning cropping rotation and pasture improvements. Paddock preparation, spraying, sowing, baling. Mowing and maintenance of greyhound breeding facility yards and sheds.
  • General farm maintenance, fencing, fabrication, machinery, mechanical maintenance. Truck transport of livestock, collecting stock for farm produce, and delivery of greyhounds to trainers attached to the breeding facility.
  • Operating excavators up to 40 tons, bulldozers equivalent to D6, and skid steers in the use of dam cleaning, building, quarry work, and road maintenance and building.

Farm Overseer

Boxgum Grazing
Murringo, NSW
06.2015 - 03.2022
  • General farm maintenance and mechanical maintenance.
  • Livestock marking and disease management on sheep, cattle, and pigs are conducted on a holistically managed farm that is used in the on-farm butchery, supplying markets and online orders.
  • Butchery work, carcass breakdown, and value adding; slice, portion, and pack for markets and online orders.
  • pasture improvements
  • Currently, I am still working casually, doing carcass breakdown.

Shift Supervisor

JBS
Leeton, NSW
01.2010 - 05.2015
  • Supervised day and night operations in boning room with 3 days on, 4 days off schedule.
  • Developed cost-reduction strategies while maintaining high product quality standards.
  • Identified manufacturing process risks and created contingency plans to mitigate them.
  • Yield monitoring and improvements.
  • People management skills and retention.
  • Budgeting, assisted in skills development and training

Previous Experiences

Various
01.2000 - 12.2009
  • I worked for Rockdale Beef in Leeton as a qualified beef boner, 3 days on, 4 days off shift, from January 2007 to December 2009.
  • I worked for Harvest Haul Australia. Harvesting winter, summer, and summer crops as a contract header driver using the latest models of John Deere equipment, traveling from QLD, NSW, and VIC. September 2005 to December 2006.
  • I worked for Cargill Beef in Wagga Wagga, where I progressed from various slaughter floor duties, and became a qualified beef boner. January 2002 to August 2005.
  • I worked as a jackaroo, learning farming practices from maintenance, mechanical work, livestock, irrigation, dairy work, feedlot, and broadacre sowing. December 1999 – December 2001.

Education

High School Diploma -

Junee High School
Junee, NSW
12-1999

Skills

  • Safety compliance
  • Truck, excavator, and bulldozer operation
  • Broadacre machinery and skid-steer operation
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Livestock management
  • Budget management
  • Problem solving
  • Multitasking
  • Leadership

Volunteer

  • Rural Fire Services, I have completed many course that the RFS has, from Bushfire, advanced firefighting, village firefighting, grass and wildfire firefighting, Crew leader, off road driving, responding to incidents courses, I was elected deputy captain for our unit in 2025
  • Boorowa Junior Rugby League - committee member and coach assistant

Certification

  • HC Truck Licence no conditions

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

FARM MANAGER

Wheeler Greyhound Kennels
04.2022 - Current

Farm Overseer

Boxgum Grazing
06.2015 - 03.2022

Shift Supervisor

JBS
01.2010 - 05.2015

Previous Experiences

Various
01.2000 - 12.2009

High School Diploma -

Junee High School

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