General Farm Worker - Surrey, Canada - Green Leaf Farm Ltd
2 weeks ago
Description
Work Term:
Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 100 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
Work site environment:
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
Work setting:
- Staff accommodation available
- Staff accommodation provided
Tasks:
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvesting seedlings
- Mixing fertilizer
- Vegetable culling
- 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 produce for quality and prepare for market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Type of product:
- Vegetables
Type of crops:
- Cabbage
- Cauliflowers
- Greenhouse vegetables
Food specialties:
- Vegetables
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Lift truck
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Tillage equipment
- Tractor
- Vegetable harvester
Automated systems experience:
- Automated irrigation system
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Handeye coordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Personal suitability:
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
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