Farm manager

Cedarholme Farms Limited

$20.00 to 26.00 hourly (To be negotiated) – 35 to 80 hours per week

Overview

Languages

English

Education

  • No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

5 years or more

Work site environment

  • Corn farming
  • Hay farming
  • Other grain farming
  • Other miscellaneous crop farming
  • Soybean farming
  • Wheat farming
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Outdoors
  • Harvest crops

Work setting

  • Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Greenhouse cleaning
  • Harvesting seedlings
  • Hoeing crops
  • Weeding
  • Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
  • Manage overall operation of farm
  • Organize and co-ordinate planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities; raising and breeding of livestock and poultry
  • Purchase machinery, livestock, seed, feed and other supplies
  • Determine the amount and kinds of crops to be grown and livestock to be raised
  • Maintain financial and production records
  • Perform general farm duties
  • Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers

Supervision

  • 11-15 people

Experience and specialization

Type of crops

  • Ginseng
  • Soybeans

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Automated irrigation system
  • Automated manure handling or storage system
  • Bulk handling system
  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Harvesters
  • Seed drill
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Storage and silage system
  • Tractor
  • Truck

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Large workload
  • Manual dexterity
  • Physically demanding
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Work under pressure

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics

To apply for this job email your details to cedarholmeoffice@gmail.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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