LANGUAGES
English
EDUCATION
- No degree, certificate or diploma
EXPERIENCE
Experience an asset
ON SITE
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
WORK SITE ENVIRONMENT
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Tobacco
WORK SETTING
RESPONSIBILITIES
TASKS
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Perform general farm duties
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
- Clean the crops
- Cut horticultural crops
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Tie and secure plants
EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALIZATION
TYPE OF CROPS
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY EXPERIENCE
- Fertilizer applicator
- Harvesters
- Seed drill
- Tractor
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Lift truck
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Hand tools
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling