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Job details

  • Location Oliver, BC
  • Workplace information On site
  • Salary17.40 hourly / 30 to 60 hours per week
  • Terms of employment Seasonal employment Full time
  • Day, Evening, Weekend, On Call, Flexible Hours, Early Morning, Morning
  • Start date: 2025-03-01
  • Benefits: Financial benefits, Other benefits
  • vacancies 6 vacancies

 

Languages

English

Education

  • No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

Experience an asset

On site

 Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

  • Fruit and vegetable combination farming
  • Wet/damp
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Tree and orchard fruit

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
  • Greenhouse cleaning
  • Hand harvesting vegetables
  • Harvest seedlings
  • Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
  • Tie and secure plants
  • Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
  • Weeding
  • Fertilize and spray crops
  • Harvest crops
  • 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
  • Perform general farm duties
  • Budding trees
  • Cut horticultural crops

Experience and specialization

Type of crops

  • Apples
  • Cherries
  • Garlic
  • Grapes
  • Greenhouse vegetables

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Farm truck
  • Forklift
  • Fruit harvester
  • Tractor
  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Welding
  • Hand tools
  • Vegetable or fruit harvester

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation
  • Public transportation is not available

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
  • Large workload
  • Sound discrimination
  • Overtime required
  • Sitting
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Walking

Personal suitability

  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Team player

Benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Piece work

Other benefits

  • Parking available

Who can apply to this job?

The employer accepts applications from:

  • Canadian citizens and permanent or temporary residents of Canada.
  • Other candidates with or without a valid Canadian work permit.

How to apply

By mail

4378 Hwy 97Oliver, BCV0H 1T1

Advertised until

2025-03-23

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