Dairy Farm Worker

Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: French
- Hours: 35 to 45 hours per week
- Education: College/CEGEP
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
**Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- Soybean farming
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Livestock
- Grain, oil and forage crop
**Work setting**:

- Room and board provided
- Rural area
- Dairy
**Tasks**:

- Calving
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Feed and tend animals
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Perform general farm duties
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Maintain work records and logs
- Formulate feeding program
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Select livestock for sale
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Farm truck
- Tractor
**Automated systems experience**:

- Milking system (automated)
**Area of specialization**:

- Dairy cattle
- Agricultural livestock service
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
- Large workload
**Internship**:

- This position is a paid internship that encourages on-the-job training and skill development.
**Health benefits**:

- Health care plan