poultry farm worker
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment:
- Broiler and other meat-type chicken production.
- Chicken farming.
- Layer poultry farming.
- Outdoors.
- Dusty.
- Odours.
- Poultry and egg production.
- Work setting: Rural area.
- Various locations.
Tasks:
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Write daily basic progress reports.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Egg gathering system.
- Feeding and watering system.
Automated systems experience:
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated.
- Manure handling and storage.
Transportation/travel information:
Own transportation.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fast-paced environment.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Personal suitability:
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Flexibility.
Screening questions:
Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
Experience:
No experience (will train).
Employment terms options:
- Day.
- Weekend.