farm worker - livestock
Education:
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Work site environment:
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots.
- Chicken farming.
- Goat farming.
- Hay farming.
- Outdoors.
- Dusty.
- Hot.
- Odours.
- Wet/damp.
- Livestock.
- All weather conditions.
- Dirty.
Work setting:
Rural area.
Tasks:
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals.
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Monitor the calving process.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving.
- Track and report on current feed inventory .
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures.
- Formulate feeding program.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Write daily basic progress reports.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
Personal suitability:
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Judgement.
- Reliability.
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- 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)?.
Experience:
1 to less than 7 months.
Employment terms options:
- Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- On call.
- Day.
- Weekend.