agricultural equipment operator

This application encompasses: agricultural equipment operation, irrigation, general farm labor, and growing and harvesting row crops such as hay, corn and triticale.

This is a SKILL LEVEL II job and requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor experience. Workers will be expected to perform job duties with minimal supervision and instruction.

The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds. General Farm Work will include the following duties

1. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops.

2. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery

3. May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)

4. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds

5. Remove rocks from fields, edges fields, concrete ditches, etc.

6. Paint, maintain, repair farm structures

7. Maintain and repair fencing

8. Perform general clean-up of farm areas

9. Drive, unload/load NON-CDL, farm exempt heavy trucks to haul employer’s crops, fertilizer, compost and other crop inputs to and from employer worksites. Trucks are not commercial trucks and only operate for the employer. Those with a valid drivers license and are insurable may drive vehicles.

10. Husk, shell, de-tassel corn

11. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATV’s), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties