General Labourer job in Ontario

Company - Via Verde Hydroponics

Specific Skills:

• Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
• Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
• Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
• Report signs of insect or disease damage
• Pot and re-pot plants
• Plant bulbs and seeds
• Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Mix and prepare soils
• Harvest crops
• Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
• Apply fertilizers
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
• Clean work area
• Specific Skills – Field Crops
• Hand harvesting vegetables
• Additional Skills
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens

Weight Handling

• Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Type of Product

• Vegetables

Type of Crops

• Strawberries
• Greenhouse tomatoes
• Greenhouse vegetables
• Landscape and Horticulture Technicians and Specialists Specific Skills
• Cleaning crop
• Clipping
• De-leafing
• Mixing fertilizer
• Suckering
• Tying
• Vertical farming system
• Weeding
• Grading
• Greenhouse cleaning
• Lowering

Work Site Environment

• At heights; Wet/damp; Hot;
• Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
• Fast-paced environment; Work under pressure; Repetitive tasks; Handling heavy loads; Physically demanding; Attention to detail; Hand-eye co-ordination; Ability to distinguish between colours; Combination of sitting, standing, walking; Standing for extended periods; Walking; Bending, crouching, kneeling; Large workload;