Dairy Farm Worker
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 65 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work site environment
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
- Corn farming
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Noisy
- Dusty
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
- Farm
Tasks
- Calving
- Farm animal grooming
- Handling animals
- Milking goats
- Monitoring animal health
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Perform general farm duties
- Clean and maintain equipment
Type of crops
- Seed corn
- Sweet corn
Equipment and machinery experience
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Milking system (automated)
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Storage and silage system
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
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