Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Hay farming
- Sheep farming
Work setting
- Room and board provided
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Farm animal grooming
- Harvesting seedlings
- Hoeing crops
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Seed cutting
- Soil fertility programs
- Tying
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- 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
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
- Clean work area
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Turf grass harvester
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Hand tools
- Forklift
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Manure handling and storage
- Storage and silage system
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Overtime required
- Manual dexterity
- Large workload
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Quick learner