Agriculture Equipment Operator

Job description

Crops: Hay, straw, alfalfa, , Apple, Beans, Cherry, Corn, Field crops, Grains and beans, Grape, Grass, Green beans, Onion, Peas, Potato, Silage, Sorghum, Sweetcorn, Tomato

Operate large farm equipment and machinery equipped with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, moving, transporting, storing, and harvesting grain, oilseed crops and silage. Operate haying equipment for hay production of swathing, raking, baling, stacking. Assist with irrigation operation; mix and apply pesticides, load and unload equipment, chemicals, and fertilizers.

Scrape and collect manure from the cattle pens, load with loaders into haul trucks, transport manure to compost production area. Screen compost to remove rocks and other foreign material, load in semi-trucks and haul to the field. Spread composted manure loaded into tractor pulled spreaders. Level dirt and roads. Operate water trucks to settle dust. Move cattle from pen to field.

Special Requirements

Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a drivers license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion.