Manager, Farm

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 30 to 60 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

- Bachelor's degree
- or equivalent experience
**Work site environment**:

- Broiler and other meat-type chicken production
- Chicken farming
- Hog and pig farming
- Layer poultry farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Experimental
- Harvest crops
- Horticultural field crop
- Livestock
- Potato and vegetable
- Poultry and egg production
- Tree and orchard fruit
**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
**Tasks**:

- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Harvest seedlings
- Monitoring animal health
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- 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
- Establish marketing programs
- Maintain financial and production records
- Perform general farm duties
- Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
- Budding trees
- Cut horticultural crops
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Soil fertility programs
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Tie and secure plants
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
**Supervision**:

- 3-4 people
- Staff in various areas of responsibility
**Type of crops**:

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

- Carrot seeder
- Onion seeder
- Automated irrigation system
- Egg gathering system
- Feeding and watering system
- Harvesters
- Tractor
- Truck
**Specialization or experience**:

- Green economy sector
**Area of specialization**:

- Permaculture
**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
**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
- Overtime required
**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 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?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
**Experience**:

- 1 to less than 7 months
**Green job**:

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

- Bonus