About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Outdoors. Dairy. All weather conditions. Work setting: Rural area.
Tasks
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Monitor the calving process.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Treat livestock health issues.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Milking system (automated).
- Tractor.
- Area of specialization: Dairy cattle.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Screening questions: Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Government programs: Recognized employer.
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Learning/training paid by employer.
- On-site amenities.
- On-site housing options.
- Other benefits.
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days).
- Team building opportunities.
- Transportation provided by employer.
- Support for newcomers and 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 mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.