Dairy Farm Worker

Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience:
1 year to less than 2 years
**Work site environment**:
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
**Work setting**:
- Staff accommodation provided
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Dairy
- Farm
**Tasks**:
- Calving
- Cattle training
- Feed inventory
- Monitoring animal health
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
**Area of work experience**:
- Animals and poultry
**Automated systems experience**:
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Milking system (automated)
- Manure handling and storage
- Feeding and watering system
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Team player
**Screening questions**:
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Green job**:
- Involves supporting green economy sectors
**Other benefits**:
- On-site housing options
- Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language:
English
- Hours:
190 to 200 hours per month