D & E Pork Inc.
Albany, PE
Job Details:
Benefits:
- Education:
- Experience: Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience Work site environment
- Hog and pig farming
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dirty Work setting
- Rural area Tasks
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- 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
- Treat livestock health issues
- Feed and tend animals
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Perform general farm duties Area of specialization
- Swine 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
- Large workload Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years Health benefits
- Disability benefits
- Job Duration: Permanent
- Language of Work: English
- Hours of Work: 48 hours per week