Farm Labourer

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Remote location
- Urban area
- Various locations
**Tasks**:

- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Clean the crops
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvest seedlings
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Automated irrigation system
- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Loader
- Planting equipment
**Automated systems experience**:

- Automated environmental control equipment
**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
- Judgement