Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

Experience an asset

Work site environment

• Chicken farming
• Floriculture production
• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Livestock combination farming
• Other grain farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Outdoors

Work setting

• Staff accommodation available
• Staff accommodation provided
• Room and board provided
• Rural area
• Remote location

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Greenhouse cleaning
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Harvesting seedlings
• Mixing fertilizer
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Soil fertility programs
• Weeding
• Clean work area
• Fertilize and spray crops
• Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking

Personal suitability

• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Values and ethics

Benefits

Other benefits

• On-site amenities
• On-site housing options