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: