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General Farm Worker - Livestock
Employer
Surrey View Farms Ltd.Date Posted
August 22, 2024Languages
English-
Location Spruce Grove, 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 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Sep 21, 2024
Employer
Surrey View Farms Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Dairy
- Livestock
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
Work setting
Rural area
Tasks
- Handling animals
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Milk cows
- Perform general farm duties
Equipment and machinery experience
- Milking system (automated)
- Farm truck
Area of specialization
Dairy cattle
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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Reliability
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
Government programs
Recognized employer
Experience
Experience an asset
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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
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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