About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Hog and pig farming. Outdoors. Dusty. Noisy. Horticultural field crop. Livestock. All weather conditions. Work setting: Rural area. Staff accommodation available.
Tasks
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Weeding.
- Fertilize and spray crops.
- Harvest crops.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Type of crops: Blueberries.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Sound discrimination.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Reliability.
- Quick learner.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: To be determined.
- Workplace information: On the road job.