About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Outdoors. Wet/damp. Hot. All weather conditions. Work setting: Rural area.
Tasks
- Apply fertilizers.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Pack fruits and vegetables.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife.
- Tie and secure plants.
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality.
- Write daily basic progress reports.
- Fertilize and spray crops.
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
Type of crops: Apples.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Manual dexterity.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Large workload.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Walking.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year.
- Employment terms options: Flexible hours.
- Morning.