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Heliotrope farm is looking for team members for the 2021 growing season.
Job located in Craven
assets include, experience with plants and food production, a strong back, able to work in the heat and have a drivers license
Duties:
Planting, weeding and harvesting of vegetables and fruits,
washing and packing of vegetables and fruits.
Job to commence April 2021 until end of October 2021
Essential Skills
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Job task planning and organizing
Transportation/Travel Information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
Type of Equipment
- Vegetable harvester
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Farm truck
- Planting equipment
Type of Farm Operations
- Vegetable and root crop
- Greenhouse
- Berry
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
- Staff accommodation provided
- Room and board provided
- Rural community
- Remote location
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Irrigation system
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated