fruit farm worker

2025-02-06 | Walsh Farms Inc | Berwick | NS | Canada

Perks & Benefits:

Location:
Berwick, NS
  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: 1 to less than 7 months

  • Work site environment

  • Fruit and vegetable combination farming
  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Wet/damp
  • Dusty
  • Hot

  • Work setting

  • Rural area

  • Tasks

  • Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
  • Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
  • Clear fields of wood and stones
  • Cut agricultural crops
  • Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
  • Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
  • Tie and secure plants
  • Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
  • Weeding
  • Harvest crops
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Budding trees

  • Type of crops

  • Apples
  • Strawberries

  • Equipment and machinery experience

  • Hand tools

  • Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Work under pressure
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Tight deadlines
  • Physically demanding
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

  • Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

  • Personal suitability

  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Work Term: Seasonal
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 to 70 hours per week

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