Planting Crew Member

Position Title:Planting Crew Member

Position Type: Seasonal

Position Location: Florenceville Main

Requisition ID: 14938

Skills/ requirements

A. Background in Agriculture or Biology or science (by work or education)
• Person(s) who knows the importance of time-sensitive work or data collection and its importance as in some crop stages there will be many changes.

B. Field experience
• Have to work between indoors and outdoors
• During planting (2-3 weeks each), open to working on weekends and extended hours, as it is time-sensitive ( will be in adherence with McCain and local laws)
• Open to working under multiple conditions (rarely on the same day), i.e. field, lab and storage

C.Lab/ Indoor work
• Experience/willingness to understand the procedures and follow protocols for data collection under lab environment (will be advised)
• Seed cutting before planting and help with fertilizer blending/ packing

D. Maintain/ uphold data quality
• At the research farm, the most critical part is data. If any errors/ mistake occurs, the student should be open to discussing with the supervisor to rectify or eliminate reoccurrence.

E. Follow safety procedures
• Safety comes first at the research farm.
• All workers (intern to operators to supervisor to colleagues) at the research farm helps with various operations. We expect the employee to follow safety protocol.
• All member of the research farm team are encouraged to help improve the procedures by suggestions.

In brief, during planting, work hours will be long, but earlier part of the season will be regular workdays. Work will be exciting and not monotonous.

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Job Family:Agriculture
Division:Global Agriculture
Department:Potato Research Farm
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol

Company:McCain Foods (Canada)