Poultry farm worker
The Roost Farm Brechin, Ontario
Permanent
Full time
As soon as possible
Description
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- or equivalent experience
- Chicken farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Other poultry farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
- Sheep farming
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Cold/refrigerated
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
- Farm
- Rural area
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Handling animals
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shear the sheep
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Perform general farm duties
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
- Apply fertilizers
- Clean the crops
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Shear and shape trees and plants with knife
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns
- Public transportation is not available
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Manual dexterity
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
- Values and ethics
- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- Day
- Weekend
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Salary: $20.42 hourly
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