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Pig Farmer resume template

A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what pig farmers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.

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Pig Farmer resume template preview: an Australian example with a professional summary, key skills, experience bullet points and education sections filled in

Which resume format should you use?

Reverse chronological

You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.

Functional

You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.

Combination

You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.

This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most pig farmers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.

Professional summary

Pig farmer with hands-on experience across breeding, farrowing and grow-out, comfortable running both indoor and free-range systems. Works from herd records rather than habit, using PigCHAMP and CloudFarms data to plan stock numbers against processor contracts and to pick up health problems early. Looking for a herd management role on an Australian piggery where biosecurity, staff leadership and efficient production all matter.

Key skills

  • Breeding, gestation and farrowing management
  • Herd health monitoring and treatment administration
  • Biosecurity and effluent control
  • Feed, water and climate system management
  • Stock planning and supply chain coordination
  • Budgeting and forecasting for a production unit
  • Inventory management and feed ordering
  • Tractor and loader operation
  • PigCHAMP herd recording
  • CloudFarms and AgriWebb
  • Microsoft Excel for production and cost records
  • Team leadership and rostering
  • WHS and compliance awareness

Experience: example bullet points

  • Ran a farrowing house producing over 1,000 litters a year, rostering shed staff across weekend and on-call shifts so someone was always on the floor during farrowing.
  • Rebuilt litter handling and colostrum management with the site vet, which lifted pigs weaned per sow and cut repeat treatments in the shed.
  • Rewrote the site biosecurity plan, tightening shower-in, visitor and delivery procedures and reducing avoidable disease pressure between batches.
  • Managed feed orders and silo rotations across multiple sheds, keeping deliveries on schedule and cutting spoilage over the summer months.
  • Maintained effluent ponds and irrigation areas to meet EPA licence conditions, passing seasonal inspections without corrective notices.
  • Led and inducted a team of eight in animal handling, safe work procedures and shed hygiene, with no lost-time injuries over the period.
  • Coordinated livestock sales with processors, matching draw weights and delivery windows to contract specifications.

Education

Year 12, followed by a Certificate III in Pork Production or Certificate IV in Agriculture gained on the job, with herd manager roles often adding a Diploma of Agriculture.

Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.

Getting past ATS screening

This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.