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Business: Horsting's Farm Market
Email: littlemountaingreenhouses@shaw.ca
Address: Cache Creek, BC
Website: jobbank.gc.ca

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• Durée de l'emploi: Temporaire
• Langue de travail: Anglais
• Heures de travail: 30 to 72 hours per week
• Education:
• Expérience:

• Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

• Work site environment

• Other miscellaneous crop farming
• Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
• Outdoors
• Hot
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

• Work setting

• Rural area

• Tasks

• Apply fertilizers
• Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
• Clean the crops
• 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
• Dose water saturation, light and temperature as instructed for crop growth and development
• Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Level earth to fine grade specifications
• Mixing fertilizer
• Pack fruits and vegetables
• Pick row and orchard crops
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Sort fruits and vegetables
• Tie and secure plants
• Weeding
• Clean work area
• Fertilize and spray crops
• Harvest crops
• Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market

• Type of crops

• Apples
• Asparagus
• Bell peppers
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflowers
• Cucumbers
• Garlic
• Melons
• Onions
• Orchard fruit
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Sweet corn
• Tomatoes
• Zucchinis
• Berries
• Potatoes
• Sugar beets
• Vegetables

• Equipment and machinery experience

• Carrot seeder
• Onion seeder
• Onion transplanter
• Farm truck
• Forklift
• Tractor
• Vegetable harvester
• Fertilizer applicator
• Planting equipment
• Sprayer or duster
• Hand tools

• Automated systems experience

• Automated irrigation system
• Feeding and watering system

• Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

• Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Fast-paced environment
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Large workload
• Walking

• Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

• Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Reliability
• Team player
• Values and ethics
• Quick learner

• Screening questions

• Are you authorized to work in Canada?
• Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
• Do you have experience working in this field?

• Experience

• Experience an asset

By email

littlemountaingreenhouses@shaw.ca

By mail

2540 CARIBOO HWY 97CACHE CREEK, BCV0K 1H0

In person

2540 CARIBOO HWY 97CACHE CREEK, BCV0K 1H0Between 10:00 a.m. and 04:00 a.m.

How-to-apply instructions

Here is what you must include in your application:

• Cover letter

This job posting includes screening questions. Please answer the following questions when applying:

• Are you authorized to work in Canada?
• Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
• Do you have experience working in this field?

$17.85 / Hour

Advertised until

2025-12-07