Job Description
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Will train
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Staff accommodation provided
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Various locations
Tasks
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate 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
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Tie and secure plants
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
Type of crops
- Blueberries
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated irrigation system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Seed drill
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Planting equipment
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Flexibility
Employment terms options
- Evening
- Morning
Employment terms options
- Day
- Weekend
Other benefits
- On-site housing options
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week