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General Farm Worker - Livestock
Employer
Mountain View PoultryDate Posted
September 16, 2024Languages
English-
Location Cochrane, AB
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Earnings $24.00 hourly
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Work Hours 44 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Oct 16, 2024
Employer
Mountain View Poultry
Languages
English
Education
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
Chicken farming
Work setting
- Rural area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
Tasks
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform livestock feeding
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Equipment and machinery experience
- Loader
- Skidsteer
Automated systems experience
Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
Area of specialization
Poultry
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
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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.
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.
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