Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
References
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Hamish Corpe

Tambo,QLD

Summary

Throughout my time with Georgina Pastoral Company, I have gained significant knowledge in all different aspects of station life. I have possessed skills in livestock management, property and machinery maintenance, and staff management. Within the development of my leadership roles through the company, responsibility for accurate record keeping, attention to detail, and the safety of staff and stock are high priorities of mine. I am an extremely dedicated, hard-working, trustworthy, and responsible employee with a passion for the agriculture industry, who is looking forward to joining your team.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head Stockman

Georgina Pastoral Company
Caldervale, Qld
01.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for a small team of up to five station hands working closely with the station overseer and manager for all day-to-day operations.
  • Responsible for the record-keeping of all stock movement on the station, including paddock numbers and muster summaries.
  • Responsible for processing, DNA sampling, tagging, scanning, branding, weaning, and trucking of cattle.
  • Responsible for the quiet handling of both horses and cattle.
  • Ensuring that the station hands maintain a clean standard of living in the quarters.
  • Conducted routine maintenance on station equipment such as bobcats, tractors, buggies, and bikes.
  • Oversaw training sessions for new station hands to develop their skills in safe stock handling and general station responsibilities.
  • Responsible for the upkeep of all station fences.
  • Gained an HC truck license, and completed a firearms safety course.
  • Management of staff behaviour and workplace disagreements.
  • Assisted the station manager in running the annual camp draft.

Head Stockman

Georgina Pastoral Company
Keeroongooloo, Qld
12.2022 - 12.2023
  • Responsible for a small team of up to six station hands, working closely with the station manager for all day-to-day operations.
  • Lead a team of station hands in a multitude of property developments, including new fence end assemblies, outstation toilet block builds, new tanks, troughs, and water line upgrades.
  • Ensuring that station hands maintain clean quarters every week.
  • Responsible for the movement of stock to and from yards for sale.
  • Responsible for processing large mobs of entries, along with general branding processing and weaning.
  • Assisted the station manager with all cattle sale jobs, including loading and unloading trucks.
  • Responsible for the development and training of all new station hands, including horse riding, motorbike operation, tractor, and skid steer operation, and all general station duties.
  • Management of staff behaviour and workplace disagreements.
  • Maintaining station fences and replacing cocky’s gates with new weld mesh gates in a number of paddocks.
  • Assisted the station manager in running the company challenge.

Station Hand

Georgina Pastoral Company
Keeroongooloo, Qld
05.2021 - 12.2022
  • Worked in a close team of six station hands under the head stockman and the station manager.
  • Performed duties such as mustering on horses and motorbikes, with the assistance of helicopters, and processing large mobs of entries.
  • General station upgrades such as fence repairs, bore runs, and basic machinery servicing.
  • Assisted in the building of many station upgrades, such as end assemblies and outstation buildings.
  • General feeding of horses every afternoon, and cattle when in the yards.
  • Gained tickets for the operation of skid steer, loader, front-end loader, tractor, and load restraint.
  • Gained a sound knowledge of horse handling and shoeing.
  • Gained an HR truck license.
  • Reported to the station headstock man for all station-related tasks.

Education

Diploma - Agriculture

TAFE QLD
QLD
11-2022

Diploma - Agribusiness Management

TAFE QLD
QLD
11-2022

Senior Certificate -

Shalom Catholic College
Bundaberg
11-2020

Skills

  • Solid communication, leadership and organisational skills
  • History in Wagyu backgrounding for feedlot operations, as well as Wagyu and Brahman breeder operations
  • History in DNA sampling, tagging, scanning, trucking, branding, weaning, and processing cattle
  • I have spent the last two years being responsible for the record keeping of cattle movement around the station, including all paddock numbers and muster summaries
  • I have gained a sound knowledge of general station upkeep, including but not limited to the construction and maintenance of fence lines, watering points, cattle yards, and general property infrastructure
  • I have participated in injectable drenching and other cattle-based vaccinations
  • Experience in all areas of horse and motorbike mustering operations
  • I have gained significant horsemanship skills over the past years and understand the significant impact horses have on maintaining low-stress stock handling
  • Have a very sound knowledge of horse shoeing and hoof care
  • Gained a sound knowledge of welding and fabrication skills from kkk contraction
  • Experienced in basic servicing of station vehicles and machines, such as bikes, buggies, tractors, skid steers, bore motors (both diesel and solar) and petrol water pumps
  • Completed a firearms safety course
  • Completed tickets for front-end loader, tractor, skid steer loader, and load restraint operations
  • Have a current HC license
  • Obtained a recreational pilot's certificate with a passenger endorsement, and I am currently working on a navigation endorsement

Certification

  • Diploma in agriculture
  • Diploma in agribusiness management
  • Tickets for loader, skid steer, tractor, front-end loader, and load restraint
  • Current HC license
  • Recreational pilot certificate, with passenger endorsement (currently working on a navigation endorsement)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Head Stockman

Georgina Pastoral Company
01.2024 - Current

Head Stockman

Georgina Pastoral Company
12.2022 - 12.2023

Station Hand

Georgina Pastoral Company
05.2021 - 12.2022

Diploma - Agriculture

TAFE QLD

Diploma - Agribusiness Management

TAFE QLD

Senior Certificate -

Shalom Catholic College

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