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Equipment and Machinery Experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Automated manure handling or storage system
Additional Skills
- Perform general farm duties
Area of Specialization
- Swine
Type of Farm Operations
- Hog and pig farming
- Hog management
Specific Skills
- Monitoring animal health
Work Site Environment
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
Work Location Information
- Rural area
Agricultural Service Contractors Specific Skills
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
Farm Supervisors Specific Skills
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
Specialized Livestock Workers Specific Skills
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Select livestock for sale
- Boar semen collection
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Processing pig litters
- Weaning
Personal Suitability
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
Health benefits
- Health care plan
- Disability benefits
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits
- Paramedical services coverage
Long term benefits
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- Registered retirement savings plan (RRSP)
- Other benefits
Screening questions
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- Do you have education in this field of employment?