About this role
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
- Work site environment: Hog and pig farming.
- Hog management.
- Dusty.
- Hot.
- Noisy.
- Odours.
- Livestock.
- Work setting: Rural area.
- Remote location.
Tasks
- Handling animals.
- Monitoring animal health.
- 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.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Select livestock for sale.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Area of specialization: Swine.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Large workload.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Sound discrimination.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Excellent oral communication.
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility.
- Reliability.
- Quick learner.
- Screening questions: 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)?.
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Disability benefits.
- Health care plan.
- Paramedical services coverage.
- Financial benefits: Bonus.
- Group insurance benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).
- Other benefits: Learning/training paid by employer.
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days).
- Team building opportunities.
- Travel insurance.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.).
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees . 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.
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth.
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
- Support for Indigenous people: Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities 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 mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees.