farm supervisor

at  North Arm Farm

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 35 to 65 hours per week
• Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
• Experience: 5 years or more

EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY EXPERIENCE

• Fertilizer applicator
• Sprayer or duster
• Tractor
• Forklift

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Overtime required
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sitting
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

• Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
• Cut agricultural crops
• Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
• Organize tasks to accomplish the work
• Oversee the activities of clearing the fields
• Oversee the process of hoeing crops
• Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
• Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
• Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
• Supervise and oversee growing and other crop-related operations
• Maintain work records and logs
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Perform general farm duties
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Feed and tend animals
• Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
• Supervisory Experience
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Apply the technique of hoeing between the row