Agricultural Equipment Operators
Employer
5615 Rhodesdale Vienna Rd
Rhodesdale, MD 21659
United States
Job description
Preparing the potato seed for planting. Unload, grade, size, cut, sort, treat, and suberize potato seed prior to planting. Clean potato seed storage areas. Move seed to proper areas, load seed into transport equipment. Monitor seed while being planted.
Operating 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. Setting up and operating irrigation pumps and irrigation.
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, insects. Digging potatoes by hand for sampling and sizing. Taking leaf and dirt samples.
General site cleanup and general farm work will be included.
All tools will be provided at no cost.
Special Requirements
Employees must maintain a valid US drivers license or a drivers license recognized as valid by local and state laws and regulations for driving in the state of Maryland.
3 months operating and performing maintenance on agriculture and potato equipment is required.