Work site environment

• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
• Outdoors
• Dangerous
• Wet/damp
• Noisy
• Odours
• Dusty
• Hot
• Cold/refrigerated

Work setting

• Rural area
• Remote location

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Brush collecting
• Budding trees
• Cleaning crop
• Clipping
• Fruit trees training
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Hoeing crops
• Plant cultivate and irrigate crops
• Shoot positioning
• Stone and/or wood picking
• Suckering
• Tying
• Vegetable culling
• Weeding
• Harvest crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Pick row and orchard crops

Experience and specialization

Type of crops

• Apples
• Artisanal crops
• Asparagus
• Blueberries
• Field berries
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Sweet corn
• Zucchinis
• Orchard fruit
• Berries

Equipment and machinery experience

• Farm truck
• Fruit harvester
• Planting equipment
• Tractor
• Vegetable harvester

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Sitting
• Combination of sitting standing walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending crouching kneeling
• Overtime required

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Team player