Work site environment

• Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
• Hay farming
• Livestock combination farming
• Other grain farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Outdoors
• Wheat farming
• Dangerous
• Noisy
• Odours
• Dusty
• Livestock

Work setting

• Rural area
• Relocation costs not covered by employer
• Equipment operation

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Calving
• Handling animals
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Weaning
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Feed and tend animals
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Perform general farm duties
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Combine harvester
• Farm truck
• Forage equipment
• Haying equipment
• Loader
• Manure spreader
• Planting equipment
• Seed drill
• Swather
• Tillage equipment
• Tractor
• Harvesters
• Hand tools
• Forklift

Automated systems experience

• Feeding and watering system
• Storage and silage system

Area of specialization

• Beef cattle

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Overtime required
• Large workload

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication

Benefits

Financial benefits

• Bonus

Long term benefits

• Other benefits

Other benefits