Tractor Driver/Farm Assistant (St. Catherine, Jamaica) - Phi Nest Castor Oil Limited

 A small start up company in the health and beauty industry with farming operations in St. Catherine is looking for dynamic and self-motivated agricultural professionals to fill the positions of:

Tractor Driver/Farm Assistant

Responsibilities

• Driving Tractors, completing maintenance duties, using farm implements to plow, plant, harvest and spray crops, and more.
• Operating general farm machinery, equipment and tools and keeping them in working order.
• Harvest and inspect crops by hand.
• Irrigate farm soil and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
• Planting, and hand weeding.
• Move shrubs, plants, and trees with wheelbarrows or tractors.
• Planting, spraying, collecting, storing and warehousing agricultural products.
• Collecting samples of crops, soil and water.
• Help with processing activities.

Requirements

• Diploma and certificate in General Agriculture from a recognized agricultural institution, for example HEART.
• Experience operating a farm tractor and implements.
• Must be physically capable of working long days and lifting 50+ lbs.
•  Safely and skillfully operating tractors and farm equipment.
• Special attributes: Industrious, courteous, honest, punctual and reliable, able to work in your feet in the sun and use basic farm tools.

Farm Assistant

Responsibilities

• Main Objectives/Core Functions of Position: manual labour.
• Assist tractor operator, land clearing and preparation, planting, cultivation, harvesting and processing of harvested crops.
• General maintenance of the farm includes landscaping.
• Operating general farm machinery, equipment and tools and keeping them in working order.
• Harvest and inspect crops by hand.
• Irrigate farm soil and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
• Planting and hand weeding.
• Move shrubs, plants, and trees with wheelbarrows.
• Planting, spraying, collecting, storing and warehousing agricultural products.
• Assist with any other task as required.

Requirements

• Minimum qualifications required: High School Education.
• Experience required: two (2) years' in a similar environment.
• Special attributes: Industrious, courteous, honest, punctual and reliable, able to work on your feet in the sun and use basic farm tools.
• Graduating from an agricultural high school/training programme would be an asset.

Please send letters of application to:

"Tractor Driver/Farm Assistant"

or

"Farm Assistant"

Phi Nest Castor Oil Limited. P.O. Box, 5188.

Kingston 6

or

by to: phinestcastoroilltd@gmail.com no later than Monday, May 2, 2022.

Please insert Tractor Drive/Farm Assistant Applicant or Farm Assistant Applicant in the subject line of the email. Emails sent without a subject line will be ignored.