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Farm Worker, General
Employer
Aspen CrossingDate Posted
December 16, 2024Languages
English-
Location Mossleigh, AB
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Earnings $16.00 hourly
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Work Hours 40 to 60 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Feb 01, 2025
Employer
Aspen Crossing
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Floriculture production
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Room and board provided
- Willing to relocate
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- Clean the crops
- Cut horticultural crops
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
Type of product
- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Native plants
- Perennials
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience
Automated environmental control equipment
Transportation/travel information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
Experience
5 years or more
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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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
- OBJECTIVE
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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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It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
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