Orchard Worker
7 months ago
Education:
- Expérience:
**Education**:
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
**Work site environment**:
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- All weather conditions
**Work setting**:
- Rural area
**Tasks**:
- Budding trees
- Clean the crops
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Pack fruits and vegetables
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
- Tie and secure plants
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Clean work area
- Harvest crops
**Type of crops**:
- Apples
**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
- Walking
**Weight handling**:
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
**Screening questions**:
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
**Experience**:
- Will train
- Durée de l'emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 60 hours per week