Language of work: English
30+ hours/week
Seeking an individual with willingness to learn and good work ethic.
Mixed sheep/grain operation.
Farm 6500 acres cash crop.
Lamb 7000 ewes.
All lambs finished on-farm.
Lambing takes place end of November-April.
Seeding is end of April-June.
Shearing is second week of June.
Silaging in July.
Harvest is typically mid-end of August until early October (weather dependent).
Duties would include basic animal husbandry as well as operating of field equipment.
There will be Opportunities for time-off during the summer, after harvest, and over holidays.
Wage will be within regional median and depend on experience with opportunities for wage increase based on job performance.
Accommodations are available 1.5 miles from main farm site.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
- Public transportation is not available
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Loader
- Haying equipment
- Forage equipment
- Farm truck
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Livestock
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Combined mixed farming
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural community
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- Noisy
- Odours