Ag Farm Technician; SY

This position and application is open to current Rio Rico High School students.

Agriculture Science Instructor/Internship Coordinator

10 hours per week (Saturday, Sunday, and school holidays)

• Collecting, cleaning, grading, and storing eggs
• Maintaining equipment and facilities on poultry farm
• Maintaining equipment and facilities on fish farm
• Confers with Agricultural Science Instructor to ascertain production requirements and to discuss condition of equipment and status of supplies.
• Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption and poultry mortality reports.
• Prepares worker attendance, fish production, feed consumption and poultry mortality reports.
• Performs any combination of following duties on poultry farm:
  Catches chickens and places them in crates and poultry houses.
• Performs any combination of following duties on fish farm:
  Catches fish and places them in tanks and fish bins.
• Sanitizes poultry houses.
• Spreads wood shavings over chicken coop floor, using shovel.
• Cleans droppings and waste from floor, using broom and shovel, tractor, or manure‑cleaning machine.
• Dumps sacks of feed in feed bins and in feeders in brood houses.
• Dumps sacks of feed in feed bins in fish house shed.
• Fills water containers.
• Repairs farm buildings, fences, and shipping crates, using hand tools.
• Moves equipment, using wheelbarrow and cart; or carries equipment from one area to another.
• Shovels manure onto manure spreader.
• May stack and move crated eggs and poultry.

• Fundamental knowledge of agriculture industry required such as knowledge of basic terminology in plant and animal science, hydroponics, aquaculture, and nursery operations; identify standards of personal hygiene, sanitation, and safety.
• Organized and professional
• Self‑motivated with the able to multi‑task § Ability to work well with others in the lab environment.
• Ability to work in a hot/ cold, humid and fast‑paced workplace

• Lifting boxes, containers of feed, and equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Standing for extended periods of time
• Extended exposure to farm heat and humidity, and handling plants and animals
• Safe handling of farm equipment, including power tools