Dairy farm worker

apartmentCarruthers Farms Ltd placeKensington calendar_month 

Overview

Languages

English

Education
  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience

Experience

Experience an asset

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment
  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Confined spaces
  • Dangerous
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Wet/damp
  • Cold/refrigerated
  • Dairy
Work setting
  • Rural area
  • Staff accommodation available

Responsibilities

Tasks
  • Handling animals
  • Monitor the calving process
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Perform animal grooming activities
  • Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
  • Track and report on current feed inventory
  • Weaning
  • Fertilize and spray crops
  • Harvest crops
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Maintain livestock performance records
  • Milk cows
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Maintain work records and logs
  • Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
  • Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
  • Write daily basic progress reports
  • Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience
  • Feeding and watering system
  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Milking system (automated)
  • Seed drill
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Storage and silage system
  • Tractor
  • Combine harvester
  • Farm truck
  • Forage equipment
  • Haying equipment
  • Lift truck
  • Loader
  • Manure spreader
  • Planting equipment
  • Swather
  • Tillage equipment
  • Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience
  • Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
  • Automated environmental control equipment
  • Manure handling and storage

Additional information

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
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Sound discrimination
  • Sitting
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
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