Job details
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Calving
- Cattle training
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weaning
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Swather
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Milking system (automated)
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
How to apply
By email