Agricultural Equipment Operator

Job description

This job requires a minimum of 3 months of agricultural equipment operation experience. Work will take place on a farm that produces corn, wheat, onion seed, carrot seed, watermelon, pumpkins, turnip, radish seed, sunflower seed and other flower seeds.

The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
Worker may:
• Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crop.
• May perform tasks such as crop baling.
• May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, and threshing.
• Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
• Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
• Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
• Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Special Requirements

The employer agrees that it will offer, advertise in its recruitment, and pay at least the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), the prevailing hourly wage rate, the prevailing piece rate, the agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, or the Federal or State minimum wage rate, in effect at the time work is performed, whichever is highest.