Agricultural Equipment Operator

Job description

This application encompasses: irrigation, general farm labor, and growing and harvesting row crops such as hay, corn and triticale and hops.

This job requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor experience
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.

General Farm Work will include the following duties
1. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops
2. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery
3. May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)
4. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds
5. Remove rocks from fields, edges fields, concrete ditches, etc.
6. Paint, maintain, repair, farm structures
7. Replace, repair fencing
8. Perform general clean-up of farm areas
9. Drive, unload/load non CDL, farm exempt heavy trucks to haul employer's crops, fertilizer, compost and other crop inputs
10. Husk, shell, de-tassel corn
11. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATVs), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties

Special Requirements

Prohibited and Unacceptable Conduct
Per 20 CFR 655.135 (j), The employer and its agents have not sought or received payment of any kind from any employee subject to 8 U.S.C. 1188 for any activity related to obtaining H-2A labor certification, including payment of the employer's attorneys' fees, application fees, or recruitment costs. For purposes of this paragraph, payment includes, but is not limited to, monetary payments, wage concessions (including deductions from wages, salary, or benefits), kickbacks, bribes, tributes, in kind payments, and free labor.

This provision does not prohibit employers or their agents from receiving reimbursement for costs that are the responsibility and primarily for the benefit of the worker, such as government-required passport, or visa fees. Worker will be reimbursed should the worker receive a visa and arrive at the place of work.