Wilmar Acres Ltd
Centreville, NS
Posted yesterday
Job Details:
$17.00 - $17.25 / hour
Temporary
Entry Level
Overview
- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 55 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset Work site environment
- Broiler and other meat-type chicken production
- Chicken farming
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other poultry farming
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
- Odours
- Wet/damp
- Horticultural field crop
- Potato and vegetable
- Poultry and egg production
- All weather conditions
- Dirty Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Handling animals
- Mixing fertilizer
- Monitoring animal health
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Maintain quality control and production records
- 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 Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Vegetable harvester
- Skidsteer
- Forklift Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- 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
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling Screening questions
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)? Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- Night Employment terms options
- Day
- Weekend
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