🇨🇦 Farm worker, fruit
Location
regular, Canada
$
Salary
40
Salary Type
Hourly
Introduction
Work site environment Fruit and vegetable combination farming Outdoors Viticulture Dusty Hot Cold/refrigerated All weather conditions Work setting Rural area Various locations
Job Details
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Cut agricultural crops
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Pick row and orchard crops
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Tie and secure plants
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Clean work area
- Harvest crops
Experience and specialization
Type of crops
- Apples
- Cherries
- Grapes
- Orchard fruit
- Vegetables
- Vineyard
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)