Job Description

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

Experience an asset

On site

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

Work site environment

• Layer poultry farming
• Other poultry farming
• Outdoors
• Dusty
• Odours

Work setting

• Rural area

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Monitoring animal health
• Feed and tend animals
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• 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

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Air Brake (Z) Endorsement

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Egg gathering system
• Feeding and watering system
• Farm truck

Automated systems experience

• Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
• Automated environmental control equipment
• Manure handling and storage

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation
• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Organized
• Team player
• Flexibility

Benefits

Other benefits

• On-site housing options

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