pork production technician

Your tasks

• Diagnose livestock health issues.
• Handling animals.
• Monitoring animal health.
• Organize tasks to accomplish the work.
• Perform animal grooming activities .
• Perform livestock feeding.
• 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.
• Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
• Formulate feeding program.
• Maintain livestock performance records.
• Maintain quality control and production records.
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
• Maintain work records and logs.
• Perform general farm duties.
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.

Requirements

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.

1 to less than 7 months.

What we offer

Health care plan.

Other

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