Employment Information
- Post ID: 828880477
- Posted Date: Apr 23, 2024
- Closing Date: Jun 17, 2024
- Company: SM Mixed Farming Inc.
- Category: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Middlewood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Job Details
- Experience: 2 years - 3 years
- Opening Positions: 1
- Remuneration: $16.00 to $17.50 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 45 hours per week
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Clean the crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- Cut horticultural crops
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Handling animals
- Harvest seedlings
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Milking goats
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Seed cutting
- Soil fertility programs
- Tie and secure plants
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Maintain financial and production records
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Develop work schedules and establish procedures
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Milk cows
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Medical exam
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer