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Worker, Farm
Employer
DR Land & Cattle LtdDate Posted
May 15, 2025Languages
English-
Location Esther, AB
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Earnings $22.00 to $24.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 30 to 50 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 3  Vacancies
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Closing Date Jul 27, 2025
Employer
DR Land & Cattle Ltd
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Odours
- Livestock
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
Tasks
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
- 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
- Perform general farm duties
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Hand tools
Area of specialization
- Cattle breeding
- Beef cattle
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Overtime required
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Health benefits
Health care plan
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- On-site housing options
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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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