Job Description

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

Experience an asset

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Hay farming
• Livestock combination farming
• Organic farming
• Other grain farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
• Wheat farming

Work setting

• Staff accommodation available
• Staff accommodation provided
• Room and board provided
• Rural area
• Remote location
• Urban area
• Relocation costs not covered by employer
• Willing to relocate

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Clean the crops
• Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
• Clear fields of wood and stones
• Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Harvest seedlings
• Mixing fertilizer
• Monitoring animal health
• Pick row and orchard crops
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Seed cutting
• Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
• Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
• Weeding
• Clean work area
• Fertilize and spray crops
• Harvest crops
• Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
• Feed and tend animals
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
• Cut horticultural crops
• Track and report on current feed inventory
• Handling animals
• Soil fertility programs

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Tractor
• Fertilizer applicator
• Haying equipment
• Planting equipment
• Sprayer or duster
• Tillage equipment
• Welding
• Hand tools

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Fast-paced environment
• Repetitive tasks
• Work under pressure
• Handling heavy loads
• Tight deadlines
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Large workload
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking

Own tools/equipment

• Gloves
• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Values and ethics
• Quick learner

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