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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

3

Job Duties:

• Perform duties for receiving potato seed for planting and planting the potato seed. • Ensure potato seed equipment is operational and function prior to seed receiving. • Applying seed treatment to the potato seed. • Notify supervisor of any potato quality issues. • Use bobcat to unload seed potatoes or to move them around the farm. Find proper location for potatoes and use bobcat to move potatoes to its designated areas. • Operating potato agriculture equipment to prep the land for planting, including disks and chisel plows, hooking up tractor implements, troubleshooting equipment. • Operate potato planter. Operating technology on the equipment, including GPS guidance systems / autosteer, planter monitors, harvest monitors. • Bringing fertilizer tanks to the field by driving a pickup. • Mix and measure crop input chemicals for application. • Setting up and operating irrigation pumps and running irrigation. • During growing season, duties include monitoring the growth of the crop and any issues that may occur, conducting petiole and crop sampling, working on tillage equipment, including disks, chisel plows and tractors. Hooking up implements to the tractors. • Set up, maintain, repair and operate harvest equipment, including washlines, conveyers, tractors, bobcats, windrowers, and harvesters. • Other general agriculture duties include monitoring fields for weeds, diseases and insects. Digging potatoes by hand for sampling and sizing. Taking leaf and dirt samples. • Preparing farm site so the area is ready for harvest time operations. This includes installing washline and other potato handling equipment and conducting maintenance. Responsibilities also include preparing potato handling equipment and harvesters. • During harvest, responsibilities include operating the potato piler, bobcat, potato harvester, wind rower and tractors. • Other duties include performing general basic maintenance and welding as needed on potato equipment. • General site cleanup and general farm work will be included. • Full time supervision is provided and all tools are provided at no cost. Workers must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time and work in extreme temperatures. Lifting objects up to 50 lbs., bending, twisting, and stooping regularly will be required. • Participate in required health and safety training • All tools will be provided at no cost.

Job Classification:

45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

3 months experience performing maintenance on agriculture equipment and operating this equipment within the past 2 years. 3 months experience working with potatoes is required. A standard operators drivers license, or ability to obtain one immediately upon hire is required. Job qualifications for the position include at least 3 months experience operating a bobcat, forklift, tractors, tillage, irrigation, washline equipment, and other general agriculture equipment. Repetitive movements, extensive pushing and pulling, extensive walking, standing, bending and stooping will be required. Work may be required outdoors when temperatures can vary from very hot to very cold, windy, dusty, and potentially wet conditions.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Black Gold Farms Inc

Location:

Winamac, IN 46996

Worksite

Address:

3636 County Rd 215 E, Winamac, IN 46996

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25322-419370

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/2/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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