- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- We have a 6,500-acre farm, that requires most of the work to be done between the months of April and December. We need seasonal employees to assist with all aspects of growing corn, wheat, barley, soybeans, sunflower, edible beans and sugar beets. Job duties will include: prepare fields for planting, attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools, operate tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, operate other farm equipment, engage in planting, weeding, spraying and/or harvesting activities, fertilize, dust, and spray crops, mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into machinery, observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions, load crops and unload crops, operate equipment to harvest crops, record agricultural data, drive pickup trucks to haul crops, supplies, and tools, inspect, adjust, and complete routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. Additional job duties are but not limited to, mowing field ditches, mowing and maintaining farm yards, cleaning the interior and exterior of all farm equipment, operating farm trucks with a 10 speed manual transmission, and keeping all work/shop spaces clean and organized, unloading and cleaning out grain bins, doing general maintenance on grain facility equipment, operate skid steer and excavators to remove trees, dirt, and help spread and maintain gravel yards. Employee must be able to obtain a US driver’s license. Employee must be able to learn to drive a manual transmission truck. Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators