About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Broiler and other meat-type chicken production. Chicken farming. Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Other poultry farming. Outdoors. Dusty. Hot. Odours. Wet/damp. Horticultural field crop. Potato and vegetable. Poultry and egg production. All weather conditions. Dirty.
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..
- Handling animals.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Feeding and watering system.
- Tractor.
- Farm truck.
- Forage equipment.
- Loader.
- Manure spreader.
- Planting equipment.
- Tillage equipment.
- Vegetable harvester.
- Skidsteer.
- Forklift.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Screening questions: Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.