- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 6
- Job Duties:
- Performs duties like: Drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, spray, spread, and harvest. Attach farm implements to tractors, trucks, and combines. Till soil; plant, spread, spray, and harvest crops. Tow harvesting equipment. Work in a packing house facility to load and unload potatoes that are 100% grown by employer. Operate fork lift, loader, or backhoe. Handle and mix chemicals and fertilizer safely and properly. Operate, check, and maintain center pivot irrigations. General lubrication, service, mechanical repairs, and overhauls to farm machinery and trucks. Drive manual grain or potato trucks to transport crops to elevator or storage area. Unload grain semi-trucks and trailers using augers and clean out storage bins. Operate grain dryer and grain tanks. Workers are asked to maintain a clean working area and clean farm equipment using a pressure washer when needed. Other assigned seasonal tasks.
Equipment: John Deere 8230 tractor, (2) Case IH 305 magnum tractor, Case IH STX 325 tractor, Case IH 535 Quadtrac tractor, John Deere Corn planter, 40 ft Landoll Drill Case, IH 8120 Combine, Case IH 8240 Combine on tracs, Case IH 4412F corn head, MacDon draper head, 35 ft (2) Krause Strip Till Bar, Semi trucks hooked to hopper bottom or dump trailers
Crops: Corn, Potatoes, Soy Beans, Winter Wheat
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators