Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Cleaning crop
- Grading
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Seed cutting
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
- Clean work area
Experience and specialization
Type of crops
- Potatoes
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Medical exam
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
- Manual dexterity
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Quick learner