Overview

Languages

English

Education

- No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

On the road

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

Personal suitability

- Organized
- Team player

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