Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Wet/damp
- Hot
- Non-smoking
Work setting
- Rural area
- Willing to relocate
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvesting seedlings
- Lowering
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shoot positioning
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vegetable culling
- Vertical farming system
- Weeding
- Clean work area
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Pesticide Applicator's Licence
Experience and specialization
Type of product
- Hydroponic horticultural products
Type of crops
- Cucumbers
- Tomatoes
- Vegetables
- Greenhouse vegetables
Equipment and machinery experience
- Tractor
- Lift truck
- Sprayer or duster
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Automated environmental control equipment
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Reliability
- Team player