Farm Labourer

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Chicken farming
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Organic farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Wheat farming
**Work setting**:

- Staff accommodation available
- Staff accommodation provided
- Room and board provided
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Urban area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
**Tasks**:

- Brush collecting
- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Feed inventory
- Fruit trees training
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Handling animals
- Harvesting seedlings
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Seed cutting
- Shearing with knife
- Soil fertility programs
- Stone and/or wood picking
- Weeding
- Clean work area
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
- Harvest crops
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Farm truck
- Tractor
- Fertilizer applicator
- Haying equipment
- Planting equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Tillage equipment
- Welding
- Hand tools
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Gloves
- Steel-toed safety boots
**Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Quick learner
**Screening questions**:

- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?