About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots. Hay farming. Dusty. Noisy. Odours. Outdoors. Livestock. Work setting: Rural area.
Tasks
- Handling animals.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Treat livestock health issues.
- 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.
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs.
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Formulate feeding program.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs.
- 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: 3-4 people.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Automated irrigation system.
- Automated manure handling or storage system.
- Feeding and watering system.
- Fertilizer applicator.
- Harvesters.
- Sprayer or duster.
- Tractor.
- Forklift.
- Haying equipment.
- Area of specialization: Agricultural livestock service.
- Agricultural crop service.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Personal suitability: Team player.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.