Farm Hand

Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: French
- Hours: 30 to 45 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
**Work site environment**:

- Goat farming
- Hay farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- Soybean farming
- Wheat farming
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot
- Livestock
- Grain, oil and forage crop
**Work setting**:

- Staff accommodation provided
- Room and board provided
- Rural area
- Dairy
**Tasks**:

- Brush collecting
- Calving
- Cattle training
- Cleaning crop
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Soil fertility programs
- Weaning
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Perform general farm duties
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Maintain work records and logs
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
**Supervision**:

- 3-4 people
**Type of crops**:

- Soybeans
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Haying equipment
- Manure spreader
- Swather
- Tractor
- Hand tools
- Automated manure handling or storage system
**Area of work experience**:

- Welding
**Automated systems experience**:

- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
**Area of specialization**:

- Cattle breeding
- Cattle genomics
- Dairy cattle
- Beef cattle
- Agricultural crop service
- Agricultural livestock service
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- 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
- Large workload
**Personal suitability**:

- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Reliability
- Quick learner
**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
**Internship**:

- This position is a paid internship that encourages on-the-job training and skill development.
**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- On-site housing options
- Parking available