Jayne & Wayne MacDonald, New View Farms
$13.70 hourly for 80 hours bi-weekly
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Corn farming
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Outdoors
- Soybean farming
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Rural area
- Dairy
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Calving
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shearing with knife
- Soil fertility programs
- Weaning
- Fertilize and spray crops
- 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
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Milking system (automated)
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
To apply for this job email your details to newviewfarm@gmail.com
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