Agricultural Equipment Operators

Job description

Workers must be able to perform all work activities with accuracy and efficiency while working on sugarcane farms, handling manual/machine tasks associated with production and harvest activities. Weekend work required. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.

The Agricultural Equipment Operator essential work activity involves loading and transport of the highly perishable sugarcane crop using farm tractor and wagons. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the equipment operator to a location on the farm for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane off the farm. The worker will be moving it by a tractor to a location for loading after the sugarcane has been cut mechanically. The Agricultural Equipment Operator will transport the harvested sugarcane from the growing field to a location within the same field or to another close-by location on the farmer's land that is a concentration point wherein-the sugarcane is then loaded onto railcars for transportation by locomotive to a sugar mill. Once arriving at the closest available concentration point, the operator must see to the safe loading of the sugarcane into a railcar. There are multiple elevator rail loading stations on its property that serve as concentration points.

Special Requirements

Employer will conduct paid post-hire drug and alcohol testing required. Employer reserves the right to also perform periodic Random, Reasonable Cause & Post-Accident Testing. In result of a positive test, the worker will be immediately terminated and sent home. The worker will be paid for all hours, if any, worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination.