Fruit Farm Worker

**Work site environment**:

- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated

**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer

**Tasks**:

- Brush collecting
- Clipping
- Grading
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Hoeing crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market

**Type of crops**:

- Apples
- Cherries

**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Farm truck
- Lift truck
- Planting equipment
- Tractor

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Own vehicle

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player

**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?