labourer, farm

Work site environment

• Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
• Hay farming
• Livestock combination farming
• Other grain farming
• Outdoors
• Wheat farming
• Noisy
• Dusty
• Livestock
• Grain, oil and forage crop

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Calving
• Handling animals
• Monitoring animal health
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Harvest crops
• Feed and tend animals
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Perform general farm duties
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Combine harvester
• Farm truck
• Haying equipment
• Loader
• Planting equipment
• Seed drill
• Tillage equipment
• Tractor
• Harvesters

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Large workload

Personal suitability

• Flexibility
• Organized
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication