$17.20 an hour – Full-time
Full job description
- Durée de l’emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 45 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
- Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
- Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Dangerous
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Cold/refrigerated
- Work setting
- Rural area
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Tasks
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
- Cut horticultural crops
- Type of crops
- Apples
- Cherries
- Equipment and machinery experience
- Farm truck
- Tractor
- Lift truck
- Planting equipment
- Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Screening questions
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Experience
- Experience an asset