- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Various locations
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Bulk handling system
- Feeding and watering system
- Harvesters
- Milking system (automated)
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Skidsteer
- Hand tools
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Manure handling and storage
Area of specialization
- Dairy cattle
- Animal husbandry
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Quick-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner