Job details
- Location: RR 5 Kensington 2444 Hamilton RoadKensington, PEC0B 1M0
- Salary: $13.70 hourly for 35 to 50 hours per week
- Terms of employment: Permanent employment
Full time - Day, Evening, Night, Weekend, Shift, Overtime, On Call, Early Morning, Morning
- Start date: Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies 3
- This job is Verified
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Farmer Responsibilities:
- Performing manual labor.
- Performing maintenance on the farm.
- Handling heavy machinery.
- Repairing faulty vehicles and machinery.
- Managing farming activities.
- Overseeing farmworkers.
- Devising strategies for harvesting or breeding.
- Liaising with clients.
Farmer Requirements:
- Previous experience in the farming industry.
- Knowledge of farming best practices.
- Able to work long hours on location.
- Good communication skills.
- Must be physically fit.
- Excellent hand-eye coordination.
Tasks
- Calving
- Cattle training
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weaning
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- 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
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Swather
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Milking system (automated)
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
- 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
- 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
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player