About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Asset languages: Spanish; Castilian. Panjabi; Punjabi.
Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Outdoors. At heights. Wet/damp. Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Cold/refrigerated. All weather conditions. Dirty. Tree and orchard fruit. Farm. Work setting: Rural area. Fruit and vegetable processing plant.
Tasks
- Apply fertilizers.
- Cut agricultural crops.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Pack fruits and vegetables.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife.
- Tie and secure plants.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants.
- Cut horticultural crops.
- Type of crops: Apples.
- Cherries.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Farm truck.
- Forklift.
- Fruit harvester.
- Tractor.
- Vegetable harvester.
- Fertilizer applicator.
- Sprayer or duster.
- Hand tools.
- Automated systems experience: Automated irrigation system.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Work under pressure.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Manual dexterity.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Large workload.
- Sitting.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Walking.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Values and ethics.
- Quick learner.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).