Certificate III in Rural Operations - AHC32822

Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS: 03020E

This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for general job roles in agriculture, conservation land management and other related rural industries.Depending on the units selected individuals can be employed not only in the agriculture industry but also other rural and regional sectors, and community organisations.Job roles and titles vary across different industry sectors and may include:Machinery operatorVegetable/orchard workerStation handAnimal care workerPastoral workerAnimal attendant/stockpersonRural services.Individuals with this qualification perform tasks under broad supervision involving a broad range of skills that are applied in a variety of contexts, which will involve discretion and judgement in selecting and operating equipment, coordinating resources and applying contingency measures during work. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Subjects

• Troubleshoot irrigation systems
• Conduct backhoe/loader operations
• Implement a paving project
• Survey pests
• Use digital technologies to communicate in a work environment
• Operate land-forming machinery and equipment
• Transport machinery
• Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
• Implement animal health control programs
• Plan and construct an electric fence
• Perform complex four wheel drive operations
• Operate four wheel drive vehicle on unsealed roads
• Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas
• Use hand held e-business tools
• Implement a plant establishment program
• Operate chemical application machinery and equipment
• Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
• Perform microscopic examination
• Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site
• Design and produce business documents
• Suppress wildfire
• Apply biosecurity measures
• Implement a propagation plan
• Operate broadacre and row crop harvest machinery and equipment
• Operate precision control technology
• Identify and report signs of unusual disease or pest
• Work effectively in a biosecurity emergency response
• Prepare livestock for competition
• Transport and store chemicals
• Conduct civil construction wheeled front end loader operations
• Maintain native ecosystem areas
• Identify and draft livestock
• Operate machinery and equipment
• Operate specialised machinery and equipment
• Implement pest management strategies
• Plan and construct conventional fencing
• Prepare specialised plants
• Install pressurised irrigation systems
• Undertake agricultural crop harvesting activities
• Castrate livestock
• Write simple documents
• Collect native seed
• Conduct civil construction skid steer loader operations
• Assist with capturing, restraining and moving animals
• Participate in a HACCP team
• Provide feed for livestock
• Capture images using drone technology
• Prepare growing media
• Use hand and power tools
• Work in a team
• Monitor weather conditions
• Euthanase livestock
• Respond to emergencies
• Perform pruning operations
• Process customer complaints
• Coordinate work site activities
• Provide nutritional requirements for animals
• Conduct roller operations
• Control weeds
• Operate fertigation equipment
• Collect samples for a rural production or horticulture monitoring program
• Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
• Implement a plant nutrition program
• Trim trees using a pole saw
• Implement a landscape maintenance program
• Monitor water supplies
• Establish turf
• Operate in isolated and remote situations
• Administer medication to livestock
• Implement property improvement, construction and repair
• Apply animal trapping techniques
• Determine pest control techniques
• Implement feeding plans for livestock
• Conduct site inspections
• Maintain nursery plants
• Perform specialist amenity pruning
• Prepare animals for parturition
• Perform machinery maintenance
• Rear newborn and young livestock
• Implement a grassed area maintenance program
• Undertake preparation of land for agricultural crop production
• Implement biological reintroduction works
• Enter and work in confined spaces
• Maintain livestock water supplies
• Licence to operate a forklift truck
• Work safely at heights
• Conduct an ecological and cultural site inspection prior to works
• Operate broadacre sowing machinery and equipment
• Operate and maintain chainsaws
• Provide First Aid
• Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching
• Use firearms to humanely destroy animals
• Ground spread fertiliser and soil ameliorant
• Operate pressurised irrigation systems
• Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
• Develop and apply knowledge of fertiliser and soil ameliorant products
• Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
• Mate and monitor reproduction of alpacas
• Respond to wildlife emergencies
• Identify plant specimens
• Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
• Conduct civil construction excavator operations
• Apply poison baits for vertebrate pest control in rural and environmental landscapes
• Provide information on plants and their culture
• Implement a crop regulation program
• Undertake sampling and testing of water
• Respond to wildfire
• Establish agricultural crops
• Contribute to workplace health and safety processes
• Prevent injury
• Provide on-job training support
• Conduct telescopic materials handler operations

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