Job details
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Rural area
- Various locations
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Responsibilities
Tasks
- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hoeing crops
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Stone and/or wood picking
- Suckering
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Write daily basic progress reports
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
Type of industry experience
- Tobacco
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
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
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
How to apply
By email