Swine Technician

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

- Hog and pig farming
- Layer poultry farming
- Other poultry farming
- ** Work setting**:

- Room and board provided
- ** Tasks**:

- Handling animals
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Perform general farm duties
- ** Automated systems experience**:

- Manure handling and storage
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Does not require Canadian work experience
- ** Support for youths**:

- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- ** Support for Indigenous people**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)