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Swine technician

Morris Piglets

Lowe Farm, MB

Posted 29 days ago

Job Details:

$18.74 / hour
Full-time
Experienced

Overview
  • Job Duration: Permanent
  • Language of Work: English
  • Hours of Work: 40 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Experience:
  • Education
  • No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Work site environment
  • Hog and pig farming
  • Dangerous
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Wet/damp
  • Work setting
  • Rural area
  • Staff accommodation available
  • Various locations
  • Tasks
  • Handling animals
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration
  • Track and report on current feed inventory
  • Weaning
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
  • 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
  • Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
  • Equipment and machinery experience
  • Automated manure handling or storage system
  • Bulk handling system
  • Feeding and watering system
  • Storage and silage system
  • Tractor
  • Automated systems experience
  • Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
  • Automated environmental control equipment
  • Manure handling and storage
  • Area of specialization
  • Swine
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities
  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Large workload
  • Sound discrimination
  • Walking
  • Personal suitability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Experience
  • 1 to less than 7 months
  • Financial benefits
  • Group insurance benefits
  • Pension plan
  • Support for newcomers and refugees
  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
  • Support for Indigenous people
  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people

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