- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 17
- Job Duties:
- Shipping: Operate equipment to load seed potatoes onto lines to ship on trucks, set up potato conveyor and piler line, sanitize equipment, guide trucks to potato line, monito flow of potatoes, remove debris from potato line. Empty debris in tare truck, clean and sanitize line and trucks. Sweep and shovel up debris and tare dirt to keep work area tidy.
Preparing seed potatoes for planting. Operate equipment to load seed potatoes onto cutting line, remove tare and cull potatoes, monitor seed cutter, hand trim cut seed, support staff applying seed treatment, setup, and fill large plastic totes for storing seed potatoes, move totes around with forklift, move equipment between storages, collect potato samples off of the line, empty skid-steer into debris truck and weigh at scale, empty debris truck, ensure all potatoes are removed from equipment and trucks between lots, clean and sanitize line and trucks, position culverts for ventilation system for bulk lots Load and weigh seed potatoes on trucks going to field.
Planting: Move equipment between fields, clean and sanitize planting equipment and trucks, drive trucks to/from fields, clean and sanitize all equipment between seed lots, operate tractors for tilling and planting, perform planter performance evaluations, support staff loading planters, operate skidsteer and piler to load potatoes on planter.
Other duties: Sweep, wash, and disinfect totes and bins at the warehouse. Wash and straighten damaged culverts. Repair damage to warehouse. Clean and maintain housing units. Maintain the facilities neat, trim trees encroaching on fields and fence repair. Mow facilities grounds and fields. Rogue potato fields. Provide basic maintenance to farm equipment. Re Nozzle center pivots.
Hours worked are dependent on weather.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators