Job description

Work Term: Permanent
– Work Language: English
– Hours: 40 hours per week
– Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
– Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
• *Work site environment**:

– Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
– Other miscellaneous crop farming
– Dusty
– Noisy
– Odours
– Outdoors
– Harvest crops
• *Work setting**:

– Rural area
– Staff accommodation available
• *Tasks**:

– Handling animals
– Monitoring animal health
– Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
– Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
– Maintain livestock performance records
– Maintain quality control and production records
– Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
– Maintain work records and logs
– Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
– Perform general farm duties
– Feed and tend animals
– Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• *Equipment and machinery experience**:

– Tractor
– Loader
– Farm truck
– Combine harvester
• *Area of specialization**:

– Agricultural livestock service
– Agricultural crop service
– Beef cattle
• *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
– Repetitive tasks
– Handling heavy loads
– Standing for extended periods
– Walking
– Bending, crouching, kneeling
• *Personal suitability**:

– Organized
– Team player
• *Health benefits**:

– Dental plan
– Disability benefits
– Health care plan
• *Long term benefits**:

– Life insurance