Employment Information
- Post ID: 210345754
- Open Date: October 28, 2025
- Close Date: December 10, 2025 (open for 42 days)
- Organization: Pierre Moss - Nicole Blondin Moss
- Sector: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:565 Notre-Dame, Russell, Ontario K4R 1E5
- Total Views: 754
- Ad Active Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 4 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/russell/210345754/dairy-hand/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $17.60 to $22.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 to 50 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving
- Supervise milking operations to ensure work is done correctly
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Weeding
- Harvest crops
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural crop services such as plowing, irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvesting
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Milk cows
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- On-site housing options
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week