charles murphy
$13.70 hourly for 35 to 48 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Cleaning crop
- Fruit trees training
- Grading
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvesting seedlings
- Hoeing crops
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Seed cutting
- Soil fertility programs
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- 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
Type of Crops
- Grapes
- Seed corn
- Potatoes
Equipment and machinery experience
- Fertilizer applicator
- Fruit harvester
- Lift truck
- Tractor
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
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Team player
To apply for this job email your details to charphy@pei.sympatico.ca
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