Employment Information
- Post ID: 468891472
- Posted Date: Apr 23, 2024
- Closing Date: Jul 17, 2024
- Company: SM Mixed Farming Inc.
- Category: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Middlewood, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Views 3
Job Details
- Experience: 2 years - 3 years
- Opening Positions: 1
- Remuneration: $24.00 to $28.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 45 hours per week
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
- How to apply: email to [email protected]
Job Description
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for crop growth and development
- Coordinate planting and cultivating activities
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- Cut horticultural crops
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals
- Direct farm grooming activities
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Implement soil fertility programs
- Interac with bees based on your knowledge of their biology, behaviour, ecology and caste system
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize planting, cultivating and crop harvesting activities
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Raise and breed livestock and poultry
- Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
- Manage overall operation of farm
- Perform general farm duties
- Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
Supervision
- Staff in various areas of responsibility
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer