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Assisting in a wide range of activities related to grain production. These will include; equipment operation,loading/unloading trucks,servicing equipment. general maintenance and repairs on all equipment,hauling water, mixing ag chemicals.
Must have valid drivers license and available extended hours and continuous days during seeding & harvest. Must have previous farm experience. Please send resume.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Numeracy
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
- Public transportation is not available
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not applicable
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
- Loader
- Lift truck
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer equipment
- Crop sprayer or duster
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural community
- Remote location
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
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Storage and silage
- Bulk grain or feed handling
Work Site Environment
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
- Dusty