hog farm foreman/woman

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Hog and pig farming
• Hog management
• Oilseed (except soybean) farming
• Other grain farming
• Dusty
• Noisy
• Odours
• Outdoors
• Harvest crops
• All weather conditions

Work setting

• Rural area
• Remote location

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
• Conduct artificial insemination and spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
• Implement soil fertility programs
• Organize tasks to accomplish the work
• Soil fertility programs
• Weeding
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
• Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
• Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
• Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
• Maintain work records and logs
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Perform general farm duties
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Maintain farm machinery, equipment and buildings
• Fertilize and spray crops
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Welding experience
• Clear fields of wood and stones

Experience and specialization

Type of heavy equipment operated

• Loader

Equipment and machinery experience

• Automated manure handling or storage system
• Bulk handling system
• Feeding and watering system
• Sprayer or duster
• Tractor
• Forklift
• Tillage equipment
• Planting equipment
• Manure spreader
• Hand tools
• Farm truck
• Agriculture production machineries
• Skidsteer

Automated systems experience

• Manure handling and storage
• Bulk grain or feed handling - automated

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence
• Drive manual transmission vehicle

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Ability to work independently

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Excellent oral communication
• Organized
• Team player
• Flexibility
• Judgement

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Disability benefits
• Health care plan
• Paramedical services coverage

Financial benefits

• Bonus
• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance