Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Other trades certificate or diploma
- or equivalent experience
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Hog and pig farming
- Hog management
- Other grain farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Brush collecting
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Harvesting seedlings
- Livestock branding
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Processing pig litters
- Seed cutting
- Weeding
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Harvesters
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
Area of specialization
- Agricultural crop service
- Swine
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
Own tools/equipment
- Gloves
Personal suitability
- Organized