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Duties include, but are not limited to operating heavy equipment for field operations, trucking water, grain, chemicals and fertilizers, equipment maintenance and yard and building maintenance.
Previous farming experience is preferred but not mandatory.
Class 1A or willing to obtain with a clean drivers abstract.
Accommodations may be available.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
- Travel expenses not paid by employer
- Public transportation is not available
Specific Skills
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Fertilize and spray crops
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Loader
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer equipment
- Crop sprayer or duster
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Grain, oil and forage crop
Work Location Information
- Rural community
- Remote location
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Work Site Environment
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot