general farm worker - harvesting
Truly Green Farms • Chatham, ON, CA
14 days ago
Salary
CA$17.95 hourly
Job type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Job description
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 45 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: No experience (will train)
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- At heights
- Hot
- Noisy
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Pack fruits and vegetables
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- 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
- Tomatoes
- Bondable
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Quick learner
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently a student?
- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- Night
- Day
- Weekend
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- On-site housing options
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer
- Parking available