Job requirements
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
- Specific Skills
- Monitoring animal health
- Equipment and Machinery Experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Additional Skills
- Perform general farm duties
- Area of Specialization
- Swine
- Type of Farm Operations
- Hog and pig farming
- Work Site Environment
- Noisy; Odours
- Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
- Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment; Physically demanding; Attention to detail
- Work Location Information
- Rural area
- Agricultural Service Contractors Specific Skills
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Farm Supervisors Specific Skills
- Maintain quality control and production records; Supervise and oversee breeding and other livestock-related programs; Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations; Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Specialized Livestock Workers Specific Skills
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems; Maintain livestock performance records; Feed inventory; Handling animals; Processing pig litters; Weaning
- Personal Suitability
- Team player; Excellent oral communication; Organized