Certificate III in Rural Operations

Apply biosecurity measures

Contribute to workplace health and safety processes

Apply environmentally sustainable work practices

Assist with capturing, restraining and moving animals

Provide nutritional requirements for animals

Perform pruning operations

Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production

Establish agricultural crops

Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities

Work effectively in a biosecurity emergency response

Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest

Use hand held e-business tools

Use portable technology in the workplace

Transport and store chemicals

Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases

Maintain native ecosystem areas

Implement biological reintroduction works

Collect native seed

Conduct an ecological and cultural site inspection prior to works

Respond to wildlife emergencies

Implement property improvement, construction and repair

Plan and construct an electric fence

Plan and construct conventional fencing

Troubleshoot irrigation systems

Install pressurised irrigation systems

Operate pressurised irrigation systems

Undertake sampling and testing of water

Implement a paving project

Monitor water supplies

Provide feed for livestock

Monitor water supplies

Provide feed for livestock

Administer medication to livestock

Maintain livestock water supplies

Euthanase livestock

Identify and draft livestock

Implement animal health control programs

Implement feeding plans for livestock

Prepare livestock for competition

Rear newborn and young livestock

Castrate livestock

Comply with industry animal welfare requirements

Mate and monitor reproduction of alpacas

Prepare animals for parturition

Administer treatments to livestock

Maintain livestock water supplies

Euthanase livestock

Identify and draft livestock

Implement animal health control programs

Implement feeding plans for livestock

Prepare and present livestock for competition

Rear newborn and young livestock

Castrate livestock

Comply with industry animal welfare requirements

Operate and maintain chainsaws

Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair

Perform machinery maintenance

Operate machinery and equipment

Operate specialised machinery and equipment

Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorant

Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipment

Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipment

Operate land-forming machinery and equipment

Operate precision control technology

Transport machinery

Operate chemical application machinery and equipment

Maintain nursery plants

Prepare specialised plants

Implement a propagation plan

Operate fertigation equipment

Identify plant specimens

Implement a plant nutrition program

Provide information on plants and their culture

Implement a plant establishment program

Perform specialist amenity pruning

Implement a landscape maintenance program

Implement a crop regulation program

Control weeds

Control plant pests, diseases and disorders

Use firearms to humanely destroy animals

Survey pests

Determine pest control techniques

Apply animal trapping techniques

Implement pest management strategies

Apply poison baits for vertebrate pest control in rural and environmental landscapes

Develop and apply knowledge of fertiliser and soil ameliorant products

Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas

Prepare growing media

Establish turf

Implement a grassed area maintenance program

Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching

Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching

Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program

Monitor weather conditions

Respond to emergencies

Coordinate work site activities

Comply with industry quality assurance requirements

Provide on-job training support

Conduct site inspections

Operate in isolated and remote situations

Process customer complaints

Use digital technologies to communicate in a work environment

Design and produce business documents

Write simple documents

Capture images using drone technology

Participate in a HACCP team

Trim trees using a pole saw

Operate four wheel drive vehicle on unsealed roads

Perform complex four wheel drive operations

Provide First Aid

Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site

Respond to wildfire

Prevent injury

Suppress wildfire

Work in a team

Conduct telescopic materials handler operations

Conduct roller operations

Conduct civil construction skid steer loader operations

Conduct backhoe/loader operations

Conduct civil construction excavator operations

Conduct civil construction wheeled front end loader operations

Use hand and power tools

Enter and work in confined spaces

Work safely at heights

Licence to operate a forklift truck