Job Description
Full job description
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Harvest seedlings
- Mixing fertilizer
- Soil fertility programs
- Weeding
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
- 1 to 2 people
- Automated irrigation system
- Bulk handling system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Harvesters
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Forklift
- Green economy sector
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
- Permaculture
- Agricultural crop service
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Organized
- Team player
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
- Free parking available
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Supports Veterans in translating their military skills and experience into the language of the civilian job market
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
