Job Responsibility:
• Perform routine tasks on fruit farms, such as cultivating and fertilising soil, and planting, irrigating and pruning crops
Duties:
• Undertakes planting using hand tools and farm machines
• Builds trellises for climbing plants and vines
• Operates machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit and nuts
• Sprays trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weeds, insects, fungus growth and diseases
• Thins, weeds and hoes row crops, and prunes trees and vines
• Irrigates land for crop growth
• Selects and picks fruit and nuts according to size and ripeness, and discards rotting and over-ripened produce
• Grades, sorts and packs produce into containers
• Loads filled fruit and nut containers onto trucks.
Qualification:
• AQF Certificate I
• 2-3 years of experience in related field
• If overseas applicant, Skill Assessment is compulsory
Salary:
• $70,000 - $90,000 + Superannuation
• Perform routine tasks on fruit farms, such as cultivating and fertilising soil, and planting, irrigating and pruning crops
Duties:
• Undertakes planting using hand tools and farm machines
• Builds trellises for climbing plants and vines
• Operates machines to cultivate, fertilise, spray and harvest fruit and nuts
• Sprays trees, vines and other plants with chemicals to control weeds, insects, fungus growth and diseases
• Thins, weeds and hoes row crops, and prunes trees and vines
• Irrigates land for crop growth
• Selects and picks fruit and nuts according to size and ripeness, and discards rotting and over-ripened produce
• Grades, sorts and packs produce into containers
• Loads filled fruit and nut containers onto trucks.
Qualification:
• AQF Certificate I
• 2-3 years of experience in related field
• If overseas applicant, Skill Assessment is compulsory
Salary:
• $70,000 - $90,000 + Superannuation
