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At AAFC’s Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, General Farm Labourers play an important role in supporting agricultural research that helps improve farming practices across Canada. Work at the Centre includes crop production, irrigation, soil health, forage systems, and beef cattle research, all aimed at helping producers tackle real-world challenges.
As a General Farm Labourer (GL-MAN-06), you would help keep research operations running, from field preparation and equipment operation to supporting crop and livestock activities. You will work alongside farm teams, technicians, and researchers to support field trials and day-to-day farm operations in a unique research environment. No two seasons are quite the same, and the work offers a variety of hands-on experiences across different agricultural systems.
This opportunity may be a good fit for someone who enjoys practical, outdoor work, values teamwork, and is interested in being part of work that supports Canadian agriculture.
Intent of the process
Immediate need: 3 full-time permanent positions
A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be established and used to fill similar positions on a temporary or permanent basis.
In the event that an employee of the public service is qualified through this process, they may be considered for acting, deployment, indeterminate, assignment or secondment opportunities.
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3
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As one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is proud to celebrate our achievement in creating a diverse, respectful, and positive workplace where all employees are valued and recognized for their unique qualities, ideas, voices and perspectives. We are dedicated to building and promoting a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, representative of all Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic background or lived experience. By embracing diversity and inclusion, our department ensures broader discussions, better decisions, and a more positive workplace. We also have various employee diversity networks dedicated to ensuring that our department continues to grow as an inclusive employer.
Conditions of Employment:
Reliability and Security: Reliability Status.
Possession of a valid class 5 Alberta driver’s license, or other provincial/territorial equivalency.
Ability and willingness to work overtime including evenings and weekends.
Ability and willingness to perform physically demanding work activities including moderate to heavy manual labour requiring bending and lifting heavy objects (up to 22 kg).
Ability and willingness to potentially work extended periods outdoors under various environmental conditions (dust, hot, cold, noise, insects) with limited exposure to farm chemicals.
Ability and willingness to take all mandatory training that applies directly to the daily duties on the cropping operations crew such as Forklift tickets, Microsoft program courses and air brakes.
Ability and willingness to obtain a pesticide license within the first year of employment.
Under normal safety precautions, ability and willingness to work with hazardous materials.
Known allergies must be controlled through the use of personal protective equipment and/or medication and must not impinge upon the duties to be performed.
Your application must clearly explain how you meet the following
Experience:
Experience in the operation and maintenance of plot scale (for example harvesters, seeders, sprayers) or farm equipment (for example tractors, combine, farm trucks).
Experience working with field crops and weed species.
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Knowledge:
Knowledge of crop production.
Competencies:
Initiative
Concern for safety
Interactive communication
Teamwork
Abilities:
Ability to identify major crop species grown in Western Canada.
Ability to perform basic data entry and data management using Microsoft Excel and Word.
Ability to record information for the purposes of record keeping – accurately and legibly.
Ability to make simple mathematical calculations.
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English essential - You are entitled to participate in the selection process in the official language of your choice.
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Possession of a valid Pesticide Applicator License.
Experience:
Experience operating irrigation equipment such as pivots, linears, wheel moves, and irrigation pumps.
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