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Assist in the maintenance of machinery and buildings, assist in the operation of the seed cleaning plant, part of a team in a bin erection business during the slow part of the season, hauling seed and fertilizer tofield during seeding, preparing the soil with a tractor and cultivator or heavy harrow, operating a grain cart and tractor during harvest and operating a swather. Cleaning bins and machinery and general farm work that is needed to be done during the growing season.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
- Public transportation is not available
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
Specific Skills
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Loader
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer equipment
- Crop sprayer or duster
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Combined mixed farming
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
- Staff accommodation provided
- Rural community
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
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling
Work Site Environment
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot