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Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Outdoors
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- Non-smoking
Work setting
- Various locations
Tasks
- Brush collecting
- Budding trees
- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- Fruit trees training
- Hoeing crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shoot positioning
- Stone and/or wood picking
- Suckering
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Mix and prepare soils
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
Type of product
- Deciduous trees
- Perennials
- Berry bushes
Type of crops
- Apples
- Blueberries
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Overtime required
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player