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Maurer Family Grains is looking for a seasonal farm worker to join our family grain farm team in the Melville, SK area for the 2022 seeding season and beyond.
Duties Include:
- Operating heavy machinery and farm trucks
- Performing maintenance on machinery and buildings
Must be willing to learn and pay attention to detail. No experience required, willing to apprentice the right individual.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Drive manual transmission vehicle
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Harvest crops
- Fertilize and spray crops
Type of Equipment
- Tillage equipment
- Swather
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Loader
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer equipment
- Crop sprayer or duster
- Combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- Greenhouse
Work Location Information
- Rural community
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- 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
Type of Automated Systems Experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling
Work Site Environment
- Confined spaces
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot