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Job Details

Labourer, Farm

Employer

Spruce Meadows

Date Posted

November 28, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $21.00 to $25.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 40 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Temporary Full Time
  • Vacancies 30  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 28, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Spruce Meadows

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Other miscellaneous animal farming
  • Outdoors
  • Confined spaces
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Wet/damp
  • Horse breeding
  • All weather conditions
  • Dirty

Work setting

Rural area

Tasks

  • Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
  • Groom horses in preparation for competitions and shows
  • Handling animals
  • Level earth to fine grade specifications
  • Organize tasks to accomplish the work
  • Perform livestock feeding
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
  • Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Perform general farm duties

Area of specialization

Horses

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Screening questions

  • Are you available for the advertised start date?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

Experience

1 to less than 7 months

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Parking available

Support for persons with disabilities

Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Labourer, Farm 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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