farm foreman/woman
2 weeks ago
Picture Butte, Canada
JF Murray Farms Ltd.
Full time
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 yearsWork site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Hay farming
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- LivestockWork setting
- Rural areaTasks
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm dutiesSupervision
- 1 to 2 peopleEquipment and machinery experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- TractorArea of specialization
- Agricultural livestock service
- Agricultural crop service
- Beef cattleWork conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workloadHealth benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefitsSupport for newcomers and refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)Support for Indigenous people
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
