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Dairy Herdsperson
Employer
Entreprises Lavoie (1999) Ltd.Date Posted
August 27, 2024Languages
English-
Location St. Isidore, AB
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Earnings $18.00 hourly
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Work Hours 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 2  Vacancies
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Closing Date Sep 26, 2024
Employer
Entreprises Lavoie (1999) Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Cold/refrigerated
- Dairy
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Remote location
Tasks
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Milk cows
- Maintain work records and logs
- Perform general farm duties
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Milking system (automated)
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Loader
Area of specialization
Dairy cattle
Transportation/travel information
Public transportation is not available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Sound discrimination
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
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Interest Codes
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in handling machinery and equipment; and in participating in the provision of services
- METHODICAL
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Interest in co-ordinating and maintaining financial and operational records; and in hiring and training workers
- innovative
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Interest in negotiating with farmers and farm managers regarding services
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.
Abilities
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Mental Abilities
General Learning Ability
Verbal Ability
Numerical Ability
Visual Abilities
Spatial Perception
Form Perception
Clerical Perception
Physical Abilities
Motor Coordination
Finger Dexterity
Manual Dexterity
Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in handling equipment to perform general farm duties; and in maintaining livestock performance records and in training horses
- INNOVATIVE
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Interest in co-ordinating information to formulate feeding programs
- directive
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Interest in supervising feeding, health and breeding programs; may supervise general farm workers and harvesting labourers
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.
Abilities
Compared to my abilities
The abilities related to this job are shown along with your selected abilities.