Assistant Farm Manager

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
- ** Work site environment**:

- Broiler and other meat-type chicken production
- Chicken farming
- Corn farming
- Dry pea and bean farming
- Duck and geese farming
- Floriculture production
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Hay farming
- Hog and pig farming
- Layer poultry farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Organic farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Sheep farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Berries
- Experimental
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Harvest crops
- Horticultural field crop
- Livestock
- Mushrooms
- Potato and vegetable
- Poultry and egg production
- Tree and orchard fruit
- Vineyard
- ** Work setting**:

- Rural area
- ** Tasks**:

- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for crop growth and development
- Coordinate planting and cultivating activities
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- Decide on best techniques to maximize extracted honey production
- Develop a hoeing strategy for crops
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals
- Direct agricultural crops clipping activities
- Direct agricultural crops deleafing activities
- Direct farm grooming activities
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Follow sustainable soy farming practices such as crop rotation, reduced-till or no-till, water and nutrient management, precision farming technology and cover crops
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Harvest seedlings
- Implement soil fertility programs
- Implement sustainable gardening trends such as permaculture practices
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Maintain the bee yard and beekeeping equipment
- Manage feed inventory activities
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities
- Oversee the activities of clearing the fields
- Raise and breed livestock and poultry
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Seed cutting
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
- Supervise staff in shoots positioning and seed cutting
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Work with honey bees
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Manage overall operation of farm
- Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
- Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
- Perform general farm duties
- ** Supervision**:

- 1 to 2 people
- Staff in various areas of responsibility
- ** Apiary and honey harvesting experience**:

- Apiary management
- Detect bee diseases
- Manage bee colonies for the production of honey and pollination purposes.
- **Type of crops**:

- Apples
- Artisanal crops
- Asparagus
- Bell peppers
- Blueberries
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflowers
- Cherries
- Cucumbers
- Field berries
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Ginseng
- Grapes
- Melons
- Onions
- Raspberries
- Seed corn
- Soybeans
- Strawberries
- Sweet corn
- Tomatoes
- Worms
- Zucchinis
- ** Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Biogas
- Automated irrigation system
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Tractor
- ** Area of specialization**:

- Nursery or greenhouse
- ** Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- 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?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- ** Experience**:

- 2 years to less than 3 years
- ** Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
- ** Other benefits**:

- Free parking available