Ag Farm Technician; SY

Ag Farm Technician (SY 26-27)

Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District Rio Rico High School, Rio Rico, Arizona

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

Reports To: Agriculture Science Instructor/Internship Coordinator

Hours: 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, 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 ability to multi-task and 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

Position Type: Part-Time

Salary: $15.15 to $15.95 Per Hour