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.
- 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.
- 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.
"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.