King Tomatoes
Fruit Farming
Location: Oliver, BC, Canada
Base Salary: 16.05 hourly for 30 hours per week
Terms of employment: Permanent employment, Full time
Number of Vacancies: 4 vacancies
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato)
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Staff accommodation provided
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Cleaning crop
- Deleafing
- Fruit trees training
- Grading
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Hoeing crops
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- Mixing fertilizer
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Shoot positioning
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Harvest crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Write daily basic progress reports
Experience and specialization
Type of crops
- Bell peppers
- Cucumbers
- Garlic
- Grapes
- Melons
- Tomatoes
- Zucchinis
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
🌐 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.
To apply for this job please visit www.jobbank.gc.ca.