Farm Labourer

Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 60 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Oilseed (except soybean) farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
- Soybean farming
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
**Tasks**:

- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Hoeing crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Vegetable culling
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Write daily basic progress reports
**Type of crops**:

- Soybeans
- Tomatoes
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Farm truck
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
**Product inspection experience**:

- Grains
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
**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
- Manual dexterity
- Large workload
**Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Reliability