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Work site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Other grain farming
- Outdoors
- Wheat farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Livestock
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation provided
Tasks
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Handling animals
- Monitor the calving process
- Perform livestock feeding
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Select livestock for sale
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Perform general farm duties
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
Automated systems experience
- Manure handling and storage
Area of specialization
- Agricultural livestock service
- Beef cattle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
Employment terms options
- Flexible hours
- Morning
- Day
- Weekend
Support for persons with disabilities
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
Support for youths
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Support for Veterans
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
Support for Indigenous people
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
Support for mature workers
- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities