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Work site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Livestock combination farming
- Outdoors
- Livestock
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work setting
- Urban area
- Rural area
Tasks
- Calving
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Maintain work records and logs
- Maintain clean and safe work environment
- Maintain work areas
- Operate industrial trucks, tractors and other mobile equipment
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Equipment and machinery experience
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Swather
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Hand tools
Security and safety
- Driver's validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Health benefits
- Health care plan
Financial benefits
- Bonus
Long term benefits
- Other benefits
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available