Below is a brief description of this vacancy

This page outlines the vacancy and the key skills and responsibilities for the role.


Bore Runner (Water Maintenance) 2025

Dungowan Station (NT)

Katherine, Australia

Reference: 6770897

A bore runner travels by 4WD utility across the cattle station, on graded roads, checking and maintaining the watering points to ensure there is plenty of water for the livestock.

Our people are dedicated, passionate and their hard work is celebrated and recognised.

Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is a leading Australian managed, UK owned Agribusiness with strong ESG values. CPC owns and operates a portfolio of nine station aggregations in Australia and two feedlots in Indonesia. Across more than 3.2m hectares of land, the CPC team care for more than 300,000 head of cattle and produce a diverse range of crops.

About you

We are looking for people to join CPC with a proactive, positive and can-do attitude and contribute to an industry that's the cornerstone of our country's economy. And you'd be having a pretty good time doing it, too. CPC hires staff from a diverse range of backgrounds with a variety of knowledge, skills and abilities.

Your key duties and tasks

  • Travelling between watering points in 4WD motor vehicle (utility)
  • Checking watering points including troughs, dams, turkey nests, tanks and pipelines
  • Recording water levels and maintenance from bore run and communicating with station management and head stockperson for livestock requirements
  • Maintenance of mono pump systems (servicing, oils, belts and fuel)
  • Solar bore pump systems maintenance (servicing and cleaning)
  • Maintain a spare parts inventory for troughs, tanks and pipelines
  • Fencing maintenance around station watering points

What you will need

  • A genuine interest in working and living on a remote cattle station
  • Unrestricted current drivers licence (manual)
  • Observation and communication skills
  • Confident with small motors and/or mechanical experience (desirable)
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Handypersons or those with some mechanical experience wanting to experience life in the outback are welcome to apply for this role as full training will be offered.

What's on offer

  • Wages paid according to skill level
  • Nutritious, wholesome, and healthy meals and food provided in the station kitchen
  • Single air-conditioned accommodation with shared facilities (bathroom and laundry)
  • Fare reimbursement to the station (after probation)
  • Seven (7) weeks Annual Leave each year of work
  • Further details can be found in the Consolidated Pastoral Company Enterprise Agreement 2021

And … you'll have the full support of our friendly team.

Physical Demands

This is a physically demanding job that includes both indoor and outdoor work in all types of weather and temperature environments.

This job can be physically strenuous (demanding) from time to time. You will be expected to be able to walk, climb, bend, kneel, lift, grip, grasp, push and pull various tools and equipment. You will need the ability to frequently lift, push and pull from 5 - 10 kilo's and occasionally more. This job will require the ability to ascend/descend ladders.

Values of importance to CPC include Health and Safety, Leadership, Trust, Community and Value Creation and Sustainability.

CPC is proud to build careers in agriculture

Applications Close: 30 Jun 2025

Back to Jobs Download PD Apply Now

Our Privacy Policy

CPC | Recruitment Collection Statement

To assist us in communicating with you and assessing your suitability for an employment position with us including for the specific purposes set out below, we need to collect personal information about you.  By providing your personal information, you agree that it will be used and disclosed by Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd (ABN 22 010 080 654) and its related entities (collectively CPC, we, us or our) in accordance with this statement and our Privacy Policy, available at https://pastoral.com.  If you do not agree, you must not provide your personal information, and we may not be able to communicate with you or consider your application for employment with us.  We may disclose your personal information to our group entities, and to other parties, including to third parties who provide products and services to us or through us in the ordinary operation, administration, or promotion of our business and otherwise in accordance with our Privacy Policy.  From time to time, these third parties may be located (and therefore your personal information may be disclosed) overseas, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Indonesia. Our Privacy Policy contains information about how you may access and seek correction of your personal information, how you may complain about a breach of your privacy, and how we will deal with that complaint.

We use personal information about job applicants for assessing the applicant's suitability for an employment position or contract with us.  We may contact your referees and collect personal information about you directly from them.  If your application is not successful for the role you apply for at this time, we may keep your application on file and contact you for consideration if an appropriate role becomes available in future, unless you ask us not to consider you for future roles.

If your application is successful, we will then use your employee personal information for recruitment, managing payments and accounts, monitoring workers' health, ensuring safety and security of workers and onsite visitors, undertaking regulatory and company-required reporting, investigating, and managing incidents and return to work plans, and monitoring and ensuring adherence to and compliance with our policies and procedures.