About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Chicken farming. Layer poultry farming. Dusty. Noisy. Odours.
Work setting: Staff accommodation available. Various locations.
Tasks
- Handling animals.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Write daily basic progress reports.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
Equipment and machinery experience: Feeding and watering system.
Transportation/travel information: Travel expenses paid by employer. Transportation supplied to and from work.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime available.
Other benefits: Other benefits.
Support for persons with disabilities: Provides auditory accessibility accommodations (for example: transcription software, teletypewriters, etc.). Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities. Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities . Support for newcomers and refugees: Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Does not require Canadian work experience.
Support for youths: Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth. Support for Veterans: Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.) . Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers . Support for mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers . Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.) . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).