Overview

- Work Term: Casual
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
Work site workplace
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Tasks
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Cut agricultural crops
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Pack fruits and vegetables
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Clean work area
- Harvest crops
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
Type of crops
- Apples
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Field berries
- Garlic
- Onions




- Orchard fruit
- Raspberries
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes
- Vegetables
- Vineyard
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Fruit harvester
- Loader
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
- Hand tools
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Screening questions
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Shift
Employment terms options
- Day
- Weekend

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