Fruit Harvester

Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 65 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
- **Work site environment**:

- Corn farming
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other grain farming
- Outdoors
- Wheat farming
- Wet/damp
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
- **Work setting**:

- Rural area
- **Tasks**:

- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Weeding
- Clean work area
- Follow sustainable soy farming practices such as crop rotation, reduced-till or no-till, water and nutrient management, precision farming technology and cover crops
- **Type of crops**:

- Cucumbers
- Seed corn
- Soybeans
- Tomatoes
- Vegetables
- Grains
- **Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Fruit harvester
- Vegetable harvester
- **Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Public transportation is not available
- **Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- **Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- **Own tools/equipment**:

- Gloves
- Steel-toed safety boots
- **Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Quick learner
- **Screening questions**:

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you live near the job location?
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting?
- **Employment terms options**:

- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- Night
- **Employment terms options**:

- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime required