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Farm Machinery Operator

Employer

Forty Mile Ventures

Date Posted

January 23, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Burdett, AB
  • Earnings $25.00 hourly
  • Work Hours 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Feb 22, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Forty Mile Ventures

Languages

English

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Wheat farming
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Potato and vegetable
  • Sugar beets
  • All weather conditions
  • Dirty

Work setting

Rural area

Tasks

  • Cut agricultural seed according to farm standards
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
  • Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
  • Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
  • Perform general farm duties

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Pesticide Applicator's Licence
  • Forklift Operator Certification

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Harvesters
  • Tractor
  • Combine harvester
  • Farm truck
  • Loader
  • Planting equipment
  • Swather
  • Tillage equipment
  • Forklift

Transportation/travel information

Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Attention to detail

Personal suitability

  • Team player
  • Reliability

Screening questions

  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Farm Machinery Operator is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

General Farm Workers
METHODICAL

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

OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment

innovative

Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry

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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