About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Work site environment: Broiler and other meat-type chicken production. Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato). Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Odours. Outdoors. Horticultural field crop. Poultry and egg production. Work setting: Rural area.
Staff accommodation available.
Tasks
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Handling animals.
- Harvest seedlings.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Weeding.
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures.
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting.
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Cut horticultural crops.
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row.
- Clear fields of wood and stones.
- Supervision: More than 20 people.
- Type of crops: Blueberries.
- Cabbage.
- Cauliflowers.
- Melons.
- Raspberries.
- Zucchinis.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Feeding and watering system.
- Harvesters.
- Tractor.
- Vegetable or fruit harvester.
- Forklift.
Area of specialization: Agricultural crop service.
- Poultry.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth. Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers .