Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
20998 County Road 19
Akron, CO 80720
United States
Job description
We need seasonal employees to assist with our corn, wheat and millet growing season. Due to our growing of seasonal crops, our operation needs more help during the times we are planting and harvesting crops and the duties that come alongside those activities. Tilling soil, swathing, hauling commodities to elevators, cleaning grain bins, and helping clean seed wheat are very labor-extensive activities that only occur seasonally in our operation. 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, planters, seed drills, manure spreaders, operate other farm equipment, engage in planting, weeding, spraying and/or harvesting activities, load and unload crops or materials, manually or using conveyors, forklifts, or transfer augers, load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks, manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery, observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions, attach equipment extensions or accessories, load crops and unload crops, operate equipment to harvest crops, supplies, and tools, inspect, adjust, and complete routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. Employees will also need to check all load-related documentation for completeness and accuracy, check conditions of trailers after contents have been unloaded to ensure that there has been no damage, check vehicles to ensure that mechanical, safety, and emergency equipment is in good working, perform basic vehicle maintenance tasks, such as adding oil, fuel, or radiator fluid, performing minor repairs, or washing trucks, perform emergency roadside repairs, such as changing tires or installing light bulbs, tire chains, or spark plugs, read bills of lading to determine assignment details, remove debris from loaded trailers, report vehicle defects, accidents, traffic violations, or damage to the vehicles, wash and clean machinery, clean grain bins, mowing, welding, fence maintenance. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer’s discretion. Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.
Special Requirements
Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Requires 3 months farm experience.