The job of Fruit Farming Labourer involves outdoor agricultural work in a rural setting, requiring tasks such as planting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting crops, detecting crop diseases, and maintaining work areas. The role is physically demanding, involving repetitive tasks, heavy lifting, prolonged standing, bending, and working in various weather conditions. No formal education is required, and prior experience is an asset but not mandatory. The position demands flexibility, reliability, teamwork, and strong attention to detail. It offers seasonal employment with 40 to 80 hours per week, and staff accommodation is available. The working language is English.
Full job description
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Tie and secure plants
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Harvest crops
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Experience
- Experience an asset
- Durée de l’emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 80 hours per week
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