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Operating Equipment: Various tractors, Combine, Swather, baler, Air Drill and High Clearance Sprayer.
Maintain Farm Machinery and Equipment: Changing oil, changing tires, greasing equipment and mechanical repairs as need arises.
Job Skills and Requirements:
5+ years Experience operating farm machinery.
Assess and repair equipment in a timely manner.
Willing to work long hours during peak seasons.
Operate equipment from seeding through to harvest.
Possess a valid class 5 drivers license with a clean driving record.
Class 1A license is an Asset.
Welding an Asset.
Mechanically inclined and a problem solver.
Skills And Abilities
Essential Skills - Clearly speak and understand spoken English.
Work Location Information - Rural community Farm Base.
Self-Motivated
Accommodations are available.
This is a seasonal position but for the right candidate could become permanent.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Fertilize and spray crops
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Manure spreader
- Haying equipment
- Forage equipment
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer equipment
- Crop sprayer or duster
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work Location Information
- Rural community
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- 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
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated