Sector: Service

A Fruit Grower is responsible for:

• Planting, cultivating, propagating, spraying, irrigating, transplanting, pruning, and harvesting of all types of fruit.
• Operating and maintaining mechanical and power equipments and systems and farm mechanical equipment.

A Horse Groom performs the following duties:

• Handles and controls horses
• Performs grooming procedures
• Performs tacking-up of horse
• Performs untacking of horse
• Performs feeding procedures
• Performs horse health maintenance procedures
• Cleans stalls
• Maintains stable facilities, tools, equipment and supplies

A Utility Arborist prunes, rigs or moves tree branches and woody vegetation that is in proximity or could contact any electrical apparatus. A Utility Arborist uses climbing techniques, climbing systems and mechanized equipment to work at heights in urban, rural and off-road locations. Specifically, a Utility Arborist:

• removes dangerous trees using industry approved techniques
• conducts condition assessments within the electrical system rights of ways to determine the work to be completed
• secures authorization to peform work, including from the general public, utility customers, government agencies, first nations communities and landowner associations
• uses different types of on- and off-road aerial devices to work at heights in urban, rural and off-road locations
• operates on- and off-road equipment such as snow machines, all-terrain vehicles and large tracked aerial devices for work that is away from main highways
• works with herbicides to control vegetation

Agricultural — Swine Herdsperson performs the following duties:

• Reads and interprets Code of Practices, Swine Canadian Quality Assurance procedures, Agriculture Safety Audit Procedures, and veterinarian recommendations/prescriptions;
• Performs herd health and comfort maintenance;
• Performs breeding/gestation procedures;
• Performs farrowing procedures;
• Manages nursery stock;
• Performs manure management procedures;
• Operates and maintains farm systems, vehicles, and equipment;
• Operates and maintains farm mechanical equipment.

A Horse Harness Maker:

• Stitches leather by hand
• Cuts heavy leather by hand
• Assembles and constructs material by hand
• Diagnoses and repairs broken or defective components and replaces worn parts
• Trims, slicks, rubs, creases, punches holes, bevels edges and dyes or burnishes edges
• Reads and interprets job specifications technical drawings