About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Hog and pig farming. Hot. Noisy. Odours. Outdoors. Horticultural field crop. Livestock. Work setting: Rural area. Staff accommodation available.
Tasks
- Direct farm feed inventory activities . Handling animals.
- Implement soil fertility programs.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Oversee the activities of clearing the fields.
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration.
- Soil fertility programs.
- Tie and secure plants.
- 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.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Formulate feeding program.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Select livestock for sale.
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Supervision: 1 to 2 people.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Automated manure handling or storage system.
- Feeding and watering system.
- Tractor.
- Forklift.
- Area of specialization: Agricultural livestock service.
- Agricultural crop service.
- Swine.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- 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 have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: To be determined.
- Workplace information: On the road job.