Farm Worker, General

Work site environment

• Chicken farming
• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Other miscellaneous animal farming
• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Outdoors
• In/on water
• Dusty
• Hot
• Wet/damp
• Cold/refrigerated
• Potato and vegetable
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

Work setting

• Rural area
• Staff accommodation available
• Various locations

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
• Clear fields of wood and stones
• Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
• Mixing fertilizer
• Monitoring animal health
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
• Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
• Clean the crops
• Cut horticultural crops
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Harvest seedlings
• Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
• Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots

Experience and specialization

Type of crops

• Blueberries
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflowers
• Cucumbers
• Field berries
• Raspberries
• Sweet corn
• Tomatoes
• Zucchinis

Equipment and machinery experience

• Tractor
• Farm truck
• Vegetable harvester
• Hand tools

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Team player
• Flexibility

Benefits

Other benefits

• Parking available