Description
or equivalent experience
Work site environment:
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Livestock combination farming
- Outdoors
Work setting:
- Urban area
- Rural area
Tasks:
- Calving
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Maintain clean and safe work environment
- Maintain work areas
- Operate industrial trucks, tractors and other mobile equipment
Equipment and Machinery Experience:
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Swather
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
Security and safety:
- Driver's validity licence check
Transportation/travel information:
- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Personal suitability:
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Financial benefits:
- Bonus
Long term benefits:
- Other benefits