livestock labourer
Job detail
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work site environment
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Wet/damp
- Livestock
- All weather conditions
- Dirty
Work setting
- Room and board provided
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Shear the sheep
- Treat livestock health issues
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Quick learner
- LocationFort Nelson, BCV0C 0A6
- Work locationOn site
- Salary24.00 hourly / 30 hours per week
- Terms of employmentPermanent employmentFull time
- Early morning, Evening, Flexible hours, Morning, Day, Weekend, Overtime required
- Starts as soon as possible
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