Dairy Farm Worker

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 60 to 80 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
**Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Other grain farming
- Outdoors
- Wheat farming
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Cold/refrigerated
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Remote location
- Willing to relocate
- Various locations
**Tasks**:

- Calving
- Cattle training
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Milking system (automated)
- Seed drill
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
**Automated systems experience**:

- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Manure handling and storage
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

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

- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement