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Farm Assistant
Well established company in the cattle and farming industry is looking for the services of a self-motivated Farm Assistant to work in their close knit team in Viscount, Saskatchewan.
This is a Full Time position and a great opportunity for someone interested in grain farming and cattle handling. The work site is located just outside of Viscount, Saskatchewan and only 50 minutes from Saskatoon.
Grain Farming duties include working fields in spring and fall, crop spraying, baling and harvesting.
Cattle Handling duties include feeding, bedding and health care of cattle year round. As such, animal health experience would be a useful asset.
General duties include maintaining and servicing of farm equipment and upkeep and maintenance of all buildings and handling facilities.
The position includes a competitive compensation package.
Please email your Confidential Resume to Lyle MacPherson at lyle@primroselivestock.com
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
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Loader
- Farm truck
Type of Farm Operations
- Livestock
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work Location Information
- 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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Feeding and watering
- Bulk grain or feed handling
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- Odours
- Dusty
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