About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Dusty. Noisy. Odours. Wet/damp. Dairy. Poultry and egg production. All weather conditions. Dirty. Work setting: Rural area.
Room and board provided. Willing to relocate.
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas.
- Develop specific plans to prioritize.
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Milk goats by hand or using machines.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Treat livestock health issues.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Milk cows.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
- Area of specialization: Dairy cattle.
- Poultry.
- Security and safety: Medical exam.
- Transportation/travel information: Own transportation.
- 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.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Quick learner.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: To be determined.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime available.
Other benefits: Free parking available. Support for persons with disabilities: Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities . Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities. Support for newcomers and refugees: 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 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: Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment 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. Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.