Employment Information
- Post ID: 813322735
- Open Date: October 14, 2025
- Close Date: November 26, 2025 (open for 42 days)
- Organization: Stokdijk Greenhouses Ltd
- Sector: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Beaver Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Total Views: 735
- Ad Active Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 5 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/beaver-brook/813322735/general-labourer-farm/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 7
- Compensation: $16.50 per hour / 40 to 72 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2026-02-01Enddate: 2028-07-15
- Apply by: email to [email protected], by mail
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Clean the crops
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Pack fruits and vegetables
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Sort fruits and vegetables
- Tie and secure plants
- Weeding
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Clean work area
- Harvest crops
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
- 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
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- Cut horticultural crops
Experience and specialization
Type of crops
- Artisanal crops
- Bell peppers
- Cucumbers
- Tomatoes
Specialization or experience
- Green economy sector
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Quick learner
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Piece work