Livestock Farmer

**Work site environment**:

- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Hay farming
- Dangerous
- Hot
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Harvest crops
- Livestock

**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer

**Tasks**:

- Brush collecting
- Calving
- Handling animals
- Harvesting seedlings
- Livestock branding
- Monitoring animal health
- Soil fertility programs
- Weaning
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Manage overall operation of farm
- Organize and co-ordinate planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities; raising and breeding of livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties

**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Fertilizer applicator
- Seed drill
- Tractor

**Area of specialization**:

- Cattle breeding

**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
- Overtime required

**Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics

**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently a student?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?