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- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 32 to 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
- Cleaning crop
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Livestock branding
- Mixing fertilizer
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Milk cows
- 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
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Perform general farm duties
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Maintain work records and logs
- Maintain financial and production records
- Hire and train staff
- Formulate feeding program
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Develop work schedules and establish procedures
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Select livestock for sale
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
- Large workload
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
Tasks
Work conditions and physical capabilities
Personal suitability
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