Farm hand

Website Norheim Ranching

$18.00 to $30.00 hourly for 40 hours per week

Overview

Languages

English

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience

Experience

Experience an asset

Work site environment

  • Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
  • Livestock combination farming
  • Outdoors

Work setting

  • Urban area
  • Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Calving
  • Feed inventory
  • Handling animals
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Fertilize and spray crops
  • Harvest crops
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
  • Maintain clean and safe work environment
  • Maintain work areas
  • Operate industrial trucks, tractors and other mobile equipment

Experience and specialization

Equipment and Machinery Experience

  • Combine harvester
  • Farm truck
  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Forage equipment
  • Haying equipment
  • Loader
  • Manure spreader
  • Planting equipment
  • Seed drill
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Swather
  • Tillage equipment
  • Tractor

Additional information

Security and safety

  • Driver’s validity licence check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Sound discrimination
  • Sitting
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Overtime required

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player

Benefits

Financial benefits

  • Bonus

Long term benefits

  • Other benefits

Screening questions

  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

To apply for this job email your details to chelsea.norheim@norheimranching.com

Only apply to this job if:

  • You are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.
  • You have a valid Canadian work permit.
  • If you are not authorized to work in Canada, do not apply. The employer will not respond to your application.



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