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Asset languages
- Vietnamese
Work site environment
- Hog and pig farming
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Odours
- Confined spaces
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
Tasks
- Boar semen collection
- Clipping
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Livestock branding
- Monitoring animal health
- Processing pig litters
- Weaning
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Select livestock for sale
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
- Feed and tend animals
- Write daily basic progress reports
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Bulk handling system
- Feeding and watering system
- Loader
Area of specialization
- Pork
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
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?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
Financial benefits
- Bonus
Long term benefits
- Maternity and parental benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- Travel insurance