Overview
Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
Langue de travail : Anglais
Heures de travail : 40 hours per week
Education
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Odours
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals
- Develop specific plans to prioritize
- Direct farm feed inventory activities
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Feed and tend animals
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Perform general farm duties
- Identify livestock
- Book appointments
- Store, update and maintain databases
- Enter client information in databases
Equipment and machinery experience
- Fertilizer applicator
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Hand tools
Area of specialization
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Property management
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools / equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- On-site amenities
- On-site housing options
- Parking available