Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work site setting
- Hog and pig farming
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Horticultural field crop
- Livestock
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Direct farm feed inventory activities
- Handling animals
- Implement soil fertility programs
- Monitoring animal health
- Oversee the activities of clearing the fields
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration
- Soil fertility programs
- Tie and secure plants
- Weeding
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Select livestock for sale
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Feeding and watering system
- Tractor
- Forklift
Area of specialization
- Agricultural livestock service
- Agricultural crop service
- Swine
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload