Employment Information
- Post ID: 200280834
- Open Date: October 31, 2025
- Close Date: December 25, 2025 (open for 54 days)
- Organization: Morris Piglets
- Sector: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:NW 22 5 2 W, Lowe Farm, Manitoba R0G 1E0
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- Ad Active Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 8 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/manitoba/lowe-farm/200280834/swine-technician/
Job Details
- Experience: 1 month - 7 months
- Job Vacancies: 2
- Compensation: $18.74 per hour / 40 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Apply by: email to [email protected], by mail
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- 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
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Bulk handling system
- Feeding and watering system
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling – automated
- Automated environmental control equipment
- Manure handling and storage
Area of specialization
- Swine
Additional information
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
- Walking
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Group insurance benefits
- Pension plan