Farm Labourer - Harvesting

Work site environment

• Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
• Chicken farming
• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Hay farming
• Livestock combination farming
• Organic farming
• Other grain farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
• Wheat farming

Work setting

• Staff accommodation available
• Staff accommodation provided
• Room and board provided
• Rural area
• Remote location
• Urban area
• Relocation costs not covered by employer
• Willing to relocate

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Brush collecting
• Cleaning crop
• Clipping
• Deleafing
• Feed inventory
• Fruit trees training
• Grading
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Handling animals
• Harvesting seedlings
• Mixing fertilizer
• Monitoring animal health
• Pick row and orchard crops
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Seed cutting
• Shearing with knife
• Soil fertility programs
• Stone and/or wood picking
• Weeding
• Clean work area
• Fertilize and spray crops
• Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
• Harvest crops
• Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
• Feed and tend animals
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Tractor
• Fertilizer applicator
• Haying equipment
• Planting equipment
• Sprayer or duster
• Tillage equipment
• Welding
• Hand tools

Additional information

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
• Overtime required
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking

Own tools/equipment

• Gloves
• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Values and ethics
• Quick learner