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Crop Farm Labourer - Harvesting

Employer

Haarsma Farms Ltd.

Date Posted

November 11, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Spruce Grove, AB
  • Earnings $18.11 to $20.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 50 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 5  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 11, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Haarsma Farms Ltd.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Other grain farming
  • Other miscellaneous crop farming
  • Outdoors
  • Dusty

Work setting

  • Staff accommodation available
  • Rural area

Tasks

  • Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
  • Clean the crops
  • Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
  • Clean work area
  • Harvest crops
  • Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment

Type of crops

  • Potatoes
  • Grains

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Large workload
  • Overtime required

Experience

Experience an asset

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

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition

Support for youths

Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth

Support for Veterans

Supports Veterans in translating their military skills and experience into the language of the civilian job market

Support for Indigenous people

Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Crop Farm Labourer - Harvesting is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Harvesting Labourers
METHODICAL

Interest in comparing information to sort, weigh and pack fruit and vegetables at farms, and to pick row and orchard crops

objective

Interest in handling, loading, unloading and transferring crates, supplies, farm produce, livestock and poultry

innovative

Interest in preparing vegetable produce for market

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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