Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
1980 5th Lane NW
Choteau, MT 59422
United States
Job description
Employees will need to be calving cows, working calves, moving cow calf pairs, and repair fences to contain cattle. By mid-April we release cow/calf pairs into pastures to start grazing in fields. No manual feeding or care is needed past this point until the next calving season. Employees will also need to maintain and repair fence. By mid-April to the end of May we will be working on farming equipment, and starting to farm hay/barley (seeding, plowing, spraying) crops. During the summer from June to August the focus is irrigating (flood fields and pivots), and haying (swathing raking bailing and picking bales). In August we are getting combines, trucks, and grain bins ready for harvest. This includes completing routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. In September we wean calves off the cows and do pregnancy test on older cows. September to October consists of working the weaned calves and pregnancy checking first year heifers. Pregnant cows are returned and will remain there until they are pulled and confined for calving in February. Job duties will include: prepare fields for planting, attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools, operate tractors, sprayers, seed drills, irrigation equipment, operate other farm equipment, irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps, manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery, operate equipment to harvest crops, drive pickup trucks to haul crops, supplies, and tools drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals, herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures, operate farming equipment., harrow and roll pastures, help move equipment, and possibly help turn pivots on and off.
Special Requirements
Job requires extensive sitting or walking. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Requires 3 months farm experience.