Farm Labourer
Posted on Jan 02, 2021 by Farming Worx
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Location Calgary, AB
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Earnings $15.20 hourly
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Work Hours 32 to 44 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 8 Vacancies
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Closing Date Feb 01, 2021
Employer
Farming Worx
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
First Aid Certificate
Equipment and Machinery Experience
- Vegetable harvester
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Manure spreader
- Loader
- Lift truck
- Fruit harvester
- Forage equipment
- Farm truck
- Combine harvester
- Biogas
Experience
1 to less than 7 months
Type of Product
- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Ferns
- Native plants
- Perennials
Type of Farm Operations
- Turkey breeding
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Floriculture production
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Hay farming
- Hog and pig farming
- Hog management
- Oilseed (except soybean) farming
- Turkey farming
- Chicken farming
- Duck and geese farming
- Layer poultry farming
- Rabbit farming (cuniculture)
- Other grain farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Other poultry farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Sheep farming
- Goat farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Organic farming
- Broiler and other meat-type chicken production
Specific Skills
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- Apiary work
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Monitoring animal health
Specific Skills - Field Crops
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Stone and/or wood picking
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Criminal record check
Work Site Environment
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
- In/on water
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
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
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Tight deadlines
- Overtime required
Work Location Information
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Room and board provided
- Remote location
- Various locations
Automated Systems Experience
- Manure handling and storage
- Egg gathering system
- Automated honey extractor
- Storage and silage system
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Automated irrigation system
- Milking system (automated)
- Feeding and watering system
Specialized Livestock Workers Specific Skills
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Processing pig litters
- Farm animal grooming
Personal Suitability
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Judgement
- Organized
Landscape and Horticulture Technicians and Specialists Specific Skills
- Brush collecting
- Budding trees
- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Fruit trees training
- Harvesting seedlings
- Christmas tree shearing
- Mixing fertilizer
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vertical farming system
- Weeding
- Shoot positioning
- Seed cutting
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Lowering
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
Apiary and Honey Harvesting Specific Skills
- Apiary work
- Apiary management
- Harvesting honey
- Honey bees
- Wax stamping beehives
- Detection and treatment of bee diseases
- Honey farm
- Knowledge of bee biology
How to Apply
Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your job application.
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Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
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Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment
- innovative
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Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
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