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    farmer (except nursery and fish farm) - Sydney, Canada - Mad Macs Farm

    Mad Macs Farm
    Mad Macs Farm Sydney, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description
    • Work Term: Temporary
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 35 hours per week
    • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
    • Experience: Experience an asset

      • Work site environment

    • Broiler and other meat-type chicken production
    • Chicken farming
    • Hog and pig farming
    • Hog management
    • Layer poultry farming
    • Other miscellaneous crop farming
    • Dangerous
    • Dusty
    • Hot
    • Noisy
    • Odours
    • Outdoors
    • Harvest crops
    • Potato and vegetable
    • Poultry and egg production

      • Work setting

    • Rural area

      • Tasks

    • Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
    • Handling animals
    • Implement sustainable gardening trends such as permaculture practices
    • Manage feed inventory activities
    • Weeding
    • Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
    • Perform general farm duties

      • Student status

    • Full time enrollment

      • Equipment and machinery experience

    • Tractor
    • Truck

      • Transportation/travel information

    • Own vehicle
    • Valid driver's licence

      • Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

      • Personal suitability

    • Efficient interpersonal skills
    • Flexibility
    • Initiative
    • Judgement
    • Organized
    • Team player
    • Values and ethics

      • Screening questions

    • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
    • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
    • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?

      • Green job

    • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes

      • Support for persons with disabilities

    • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

      • Support for youths

    • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
    • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
    • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
    • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

      • Support for Indigenous people

    • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

      • Support for mature workers

    • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
    • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers

      • Supports for visible minorities

    • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)