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Labourer, Field And Vegetable Crops

Employer

CK Jespersen Farms Inc.

Date Posted

December 05, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Spruce Grove, AB
  • Earnings $17.42 to $18.50 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 37 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 3  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Jan 19, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

CK Jespersen Farms Inc.

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Fruit and vegetable combination farming
  • Hay farming
  • Oilseed (except soybean) farming
  • Other grain farming
  • Other miscellaneous crop farming
  • Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
  • Outdoors
  • Wheat farming
  • Wet/damp
  • Odours
  • Dusty
  • All weather conditions
  • Dirty

Work setting

Rural area

Tasks

  • Clean the crops
  • Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
  • Cut agricultural crops
  • Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
  • Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
  • Greenhouse cleaning
  • Hand harvesting vegetables
  • Harvest seedlings
  • Pack fruits and vegetables
  • Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
  • Sort fruits and vegetables
  • Weeding
  • Clean work area
  • Harvest crops
  • Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market

Type of crops

  • Melons
  • Onions
  • Strawberries
  • Sweet corn
  • Potatoes
  • Vegetables
  • Grains
  • Canola

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Onion transplanter
  • Turf grass harvester
  • Farm truck
  • Forklift
  • Tractor
  • Planting equipment
  • Tillage equipment
  • Skidsteer
  • Hand tools

Security and safety

Bondable

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Work under pressure
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Tight deadlines
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Large workload
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics
  • Quick learner

Employment terms options

Shift

Experience

Experience an asset

Other benefits

Free parking available

Support for persons with disabilities

Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition

Support for youths

Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth

Support for Veterans

Supports Veterans in translating their military skills and experience into the language of the civilian job market

Support for Indigenous people

Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination

Supports for visible minorities

Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Labourer, Field And Vegetable Crops 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

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