Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
Kidd-O Ranch Church Farm North & South
Deming, NM 88030
United States
Job description
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment. Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. May supervise casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery. Spray fertilizer or aid in application of pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers. Observe and listen to machinery operations to detect equipment malfunctions. Operate farm equipment to plant, fertilize, move workers, dust, and aid in the application to spray crops to haul crops, supplies, tools, spread manure, and to bring crops and workers out of fields. Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps. Direct & monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. Re-doing the drip installation, burning weeds to prep the grounds Assist in tritcale, chile, alfala and onion harvest, driving a bin bandit or tractor. Fixing leaks at farm fields, working on irrigation system, hoeing weeds pre/during/after harvest for onions, chile & cotton, picking chile during season, cutting onion tops, driving bin bandit, servicing equipment, driving tractor. Aid with dumping chile buckets into the field bins and working on the drip lines. Operate trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to transport workers from housing (weather on or off the farm) to the farm properties; haul tools, supplies, or crops; transport workers from place to place around the farm properties during the workday (including on public roads to reach the farm
fields); and/or transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis Those that are requested to drive will be required to possess an appropriate license, no one will be rejected for this position that does not possess a drivers license. Workers are expected to work the number of days and hours
specified. Depending on weather, crop or other conditions, workers may be requested, but not required to work up to seven days per week and/or on the Sabbath day. Employer will furnish workers, without cost, all the tools and equipment required in the performance of the duties assigned. Workers should report for work with their own suitable clothes. While working in the field, phone usage is limited to emergency use only. Due to health & safety reasons on our farm, workers must understand basic instruction in English or Spanish.
Special Requirements
3 months verifiable experience