Website Kent Farm Supplies Limited
$15.50 hourly for 40 to 46 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Outdoors
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Calving
- Cattle training
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- 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
Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
Automated systems experience
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
Area of specialization
- Cattle breeding
- Cattle genomics
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Driving record check (abstract)
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
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
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?
How to apply
By mail
9224 Allison Line
Blenheim, ON
N0P 1A0
How-to-apply instructions
Here is what you must include in your application:
- Job reference number
- Cover letter
- References attesting experience
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