Dairy Farm Worker

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English or French
- Hours: 50 to 65 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- **Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Hay farming
- Outdoors
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Dairy
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Livestock
- Dirty
- ** Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- ** Tasks**:

- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform livestock feeding
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
- Supervise milking operations to ensure work is done correctly
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Weaning
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- ** Equipment and machinery experience**:

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

- Agricultural livestock service
- Dairy cattle
- Animal husbandry
- ** Transportation/travel information**:

- Public transportation is not available
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Team player
- Judgement
- Reliability
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
- ** Financial benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance