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Top Gun Feeders Inc. is currently recruiting for individuals to fill the position of Feedlot Worker/Welder's Helper. We are located 9km south of Moose Jaw on Hwy 2. This is a temporary position to September 1, 2023
Responsibilities:
- Perform welder's helper duties
- Responsible for yard maintenance including repairing slab fences, wire fences, and pipe fences
- Maintenance and repair of feed bunks and water bowls
- Clean up of yard, pens, roads, buildings, and fields
- Assist with livestock management including processing and treating as directed by Manager or Foreman
- Operate various equipment including skid steer, box scraper, UTV, loader, feed truck and dump truck
- Repair and maintenance on loaders, skid steer, box scraper, feed truck and other equipment
Requirements:
- Minimum of 1 year experience of maintenance within a farm setting
- Prior cattle handling experience an asset
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience operating equipment including skid steer, loaders etc.
- Must be able to perform manual physical labour outdoors year round
- Experience operating a UTV required
- Excellent communication and strong organization skills
- Must be self-motivated
- Must have a positive team player attitude
- Must have attention to detail
- Follows policies and procedures and completes tasks correctly and on time
Benefits: health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, employer matched RRSP program, PPE reimbursement program
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
Specific Skills
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
Type of Equipment
- Tractor
- Loader
- Farm truck
Type of Farm Operations
- Livestock
Work Location Information
- Rural community
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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Work Site Environment
- Confined spaces
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated