What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ag Farm Technician (SY 26-27) position at Rio Rico High School?
This position and application is open to current Rio Rico High School students.
Reports To: Agriculture Science Instructor/Internship Coordinator
Hours: 10 hours per week (Saturday, Sunday, and school holidays)
Responsibilities:
- Collecting, cleaning, grading, and storing eggs
- Maintaining equipment and facilities on poultry farm:
- Maintaining equipment and facilities on fish farm:
- Confers with Agricultural Science Instructor to ascertain production requirements and to discuss condition of equipment and status of supplies.
- Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption and poultry mortality reports.
- Prepares worker attendance, fish production, feed consumption and poultry mortality reports.
- Performs any combination of following duties on poultry farm: Catches chickens and places them in crates and poultry houses.
- Performs any combination of following duties on fish farm: Catches fish and places them in tanks and fish bins.
- Sanitizes poultry houses.
- Spreads wood shavings over chicken coop floor, using shovel.
- Cleans droppings and waste from floor, using broom and shovel, tractor, or manure-cleaning machine.
- Dumps sacks of feed in feed bins and in feeders in brood houses.
- Dumps sacks of feed in feed bins in fish house shed.
- Fills water containers.
- Repairs farm buildings, fences, and shipping crates, using hand tools.
- Moves equipment, using wheelbarrow and cart; or carries equipment from one area to another.
- Shovels manure onto manure spreader.
- May stack and move crated eggs and poultry.
Qualifications:
- Fundamental knowledge of agriculture industry required such as knowledge of basic terminology in plant and animal science, hydroponics, aquaculture, and nursery operations; identify standards of personal hygiene, sanitation, and safety.
- Organized and professional
- Self-motivated with the able to multi-task § Ability to work well with others in the lab environment.
- Ability to work in a hot/ cold, humid and fast-paced workplace
Physical Demands:
- Lifting boxes, containers of feed, and equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Standing for extended periods of time
- Extended exposure to farm heat and humidity, and handling plants and animals
- Safe handling of farm equipment, including power tools
Salary : $15 - $16