Job details
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Hog and pig farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Livestock branding
- Monitoring animal health
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- 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
- Farm truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Tractor
- Pressure washers
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
Equipment
- Small tractors (lawn/snow removal attachments)
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver’s licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player