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