- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- Job requires the operation of various tractors and farm equipment to plant, irrigate, fertilize, spray, cultivate, harvest, and transport crops to elevator or storage area. Equipment that workers may be required to operate includes, but is not limited to, tractors with various implements, sprayers, combines, back-hoes, mowers, track-hoes, skid steer, lawn mower, ATV, haybin, box baler, box scraper, corn chopper, grain cart, auto shift and and manual transmissions. Non CDL farm trucks will be loaded with agricultural products and driven on the farm and to storage facilities. Participating in irrigation activities including setting up and operating irrigation equipment, clearing and maintaining operating well motors, operating and maintaining pivots, draining excess water from fields, and monitoring fields to check on and maintain adequate water supply to crops. Manual duties also include loading seed into planters; properly mixing chemicals; loading chemicals into sprayers; changing combine cutting heads; rouging fields and using hand tools to remove undesirable plant varieties, trash, and other objects from fields; changing oil; greasing equipment; performing general maintenance, repairs and/or clean-up of storage sheds, pivot points, buildings, barns, binyards, and all farm equipment; ensuring operational areas are organized and well maintained; using hand tools and equipment to repair, clean and maintain farm vehicles, machinery and specialized machinery and agricultural equipment; and regularly servicing equipment. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often and engage in various general functions. Daily duties may vary depending on crop, weather, and field conditions. The employer reserves the right to increase workers' pay or provide bonuses based on tenure, performance, or other factors that are solely based on the discretion of the employer.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse