Dairy herdsperson
Job in
Barrhead, Alberta, T7N, Canada
Listed on 2025-12-31
Listing for:
WS Farms Ltd.
Full Time
position Listed on 2025-12-31
Job specializations:
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Outdoor/Nature/Animal Care
Agriculture / Farming, Animal / Pet Care, Food Production, Horticulture
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Durée de l'emploi:
Permanent - Langue de travail:
Anglais - Heures de travail: 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience: Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate Work site environment
- Corn farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Other grain farming
- Outdoors
- Wheat farming
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dairy
- Grain, oil and forage crop
- All weather conditions
- Dirty Work setting
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available Tasks
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Handling animals
- Implement soil fertility programs
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Feed and tend animals
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Bulk handling system
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Harvesters
- Milking system (automated)
- Sprayer or duster
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Combine harvester
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Loader
- Manure spreader
- Planting equipment
- Swather
- Tillage equipment
- Skidsteer
- Hand tools Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Manure handling and storage Area of specialization
- Cattle breeding
- Agricultural crop service
- Dairy cattle
- Animal husbandry Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years Employment terms options
- Flexible hours
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available
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