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Job Details

Feedlot Worker

Employer

Driland Feeders

Date Posted

August 18, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Warner, AB
  • Earnings $20.00 to $25.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 50 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Sep 17, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Driland Feeders

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots
  • Hay farming
  • Other grain farming
  • Outdoors
  • Dusty
  • Noisy
  • Grain, oil and forage crop
  • Livestock
  • All weather conditions
  • Dirty

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Willing to relocate
  • Equipment operation

Tasks

  • Diagnose livestock health issues
  • Handling animals
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Perform livestock feeding
  • Treat livestock health issues
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Maintain work records and logs
  • Perform general farm duties

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Tractor
  • Loader
  • Welding
  • Skidsteer
  • Forklift

Area of specialization

Beef cattle

Transportation/travel information

Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

  • Excellent oral communication
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Reliability
  • Quick learner
  • Dependability

Screening questions

  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

Experience

Experience an asset

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Life insurance

Long term benefits

Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

Other benefits

Support for persons with disabilities

Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
  • Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees

Support for Veterans

  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Veterans
  • Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)

Support for Indigenous people

Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
  • Offers resources to help mature workers plan their retirement (for example: financial planning, access to pension and benefits, lifestyle adjustments, etc.)

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Feedlot Worker is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

General Farm Workers
METHODICAL

Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment

innovative

Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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