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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

2

Job Duties:

We are currently seeking seasonal workers to assist with our peanut operation, which includes driving farm trucks to haul commodities for our farms. Job duties will involve a wide range of tasks: preparing fields for planting; attaching farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools; operating tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, and irrigation equipment; engaging in planting, weeding, spraying, and/or harvesting activities; fertilizing, dusting, and spraying crops, applying fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers; guiding products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines and discarding diseased or rotten products; irrigating soil using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintaining ditches, pipes, and pumps; installing, maintaining, and repairing pivot irrigation systems; loading and unloading crops or materials manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers; loading hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks; manipulating controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery; mixing specified materials or chemicals and dumping solutions, powders, or seeds into machinery; observing and listening to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions; positioning boxes or attaching bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers; walking beside or riding on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals; weighing crop-filled containers and recording weights and other identifying information; attaching equipment extensions or accessories; operating equipment to harvest crops; completing maintenance and repairs on irrigation equipment; recording agricultural data; driving farm trucks to haul crops, supplies, and tools; and inspecting, adjusting, and completing routine maintenance and repairs on equipment.

Job Classification:

45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Requires 3 months farm experience.

Number of Hours Per Week:

60

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Omega Peanut Farms LLC

Location:

Omega, GA 31775

Worksite

Address:

119 Omega Ellenton Rd, Omega, GA 31775

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24141-013068

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

5/24/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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