About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Chicken farming. Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Other miscellaneous animal farming. Other miscellaneous crop farming. Outdoors. In/on water. Dusty. Hot. Wet/damp. Cold/refrigerated. Potato and vegetable. All weather conditions. Dirty. Work setting: Rural area. Staff accommodation available. Various locations.
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas.
- Clear fields of wood and stones.
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting.
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
- Clean the crops.
- Cut horticultural crops.
- Hand harvesting vegetables.
- Harvest seedlings.
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row.
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Type of crops: Blueberries.
- Cabbage.
- Carrots.
- Cauliflowers.
- Cucumbers.
- Field berries.
- Raspberries.
- Sweet corn.
- Tomatoes.
- Zucchinis.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Tractor.
- Farm truck.
- Vegetable harvester.
- Hand tools.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Other benefits: Parking available.
- Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.