Beef Cattle Herdsperson

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
**Work site environment**:

- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Livestock combination farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Livestock
- Harvest crops
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Remote location
- Staff accommodation available
**Tasks**:

- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Feeding and watering system
- Seed drill
- Tractor
- Swather
- Planting equipment
- Loader
- Farm truck
- Combine harvester
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:

- Team player
**Health benefits**:

- Disability benefits
- Health care plan