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Poultry farm labourer

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 42.5 to 60 hours per week
  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: Will train

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Turkey breeding
  • Turkey farming
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Odours

Work setting

  • Staff accommodation available
  • Various locations

Tasks

  • Monitoring animal health
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
  • Write daily basic progress reports
  • Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Feeding and watering system

Transportation/travel information

  • Travel expenses paid by employer
  • Transportation supplied to and from work

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Large workload
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Flexibility

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening
  • Shift
  • Flexible hours
  • Morning

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime available

Other benefits

  • Other benefits
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides auditory accessibility accommodations (for example: transcription software, teletypewriters, etc.)
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
  • Does not require Canadian work experience

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)

Support for Indigenous people

  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
  • Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
  • Offers phased re-entry options for mature workers who are returning to work after retiring (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities)
  • Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)

Supports for visible minorities

  • Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees