Salary: $28.01 per hour / 40 hours per week
Terms of employment:
- Permanent employment
- Full time, Day
- Starts as soon as possible
2 vacancies
Overview
- Languages: English
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
- On site: Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work site environment
- Dusty, Hot and Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Horticultural field crop
- Livestock
- Tree and orchard fruit
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Staff accommodation available / provided
Responsibilities
Tasks:
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Direct farm feed inventory activities
- Handling animals
- Harvest seedlings
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Oversee the activities of clearing the fields
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
- Tie and secure plants
- Treat livestock health issues
- Weeding
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Negotiate with clients for provision of services
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
Supervision: 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Type of product: Deciduous trees
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Forklift
- Area of specialization: Agricultural livestock service
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing and walking
- Large workload
Own tools/equipment: Yes
Safety equipment/gear: Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
Benefits
- Free parking available
- On-site housing options
- Transportation provided by employer
