Tractor Driver

Job description

Ag Equipment Operators (tractor drivers, including Pellenc): This job will require working in the vineyard operating farm equipment - Mowing, discing, dusting, hedging, land lasering, leveling, planting, irrigating, and harvesting grapes. Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Inspect equipment or facilities to determine condition or maintenance needs.

Row boss: Worker is responsible for vineyard row quality and row cleanliness. The row boss ensures that the workers are doing their exercises, washing their hands and carrying out their work. They fill out documentation for Food Safety, Production and Quality Control. Over the course of the day they do quality control reviews and constantly check that the workers are using the equipment properly.

Workers may occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties associated with and directly related to the primary duties. Such work will be temporary and unsubstantial agricultural labor.

Special Requirements

Requirements: 3 months of recent (within last two years), verifiable tractor driving experience. Cannot be color blind due to the need to distinguish colors of crops for proper ripeness and maturity, able to use shears, clippers and other agricultural tools, no smoking, illegal drugs, alcohol, or weapons of any sort in the housing or work fields. Ability to communicate in English or Spanish is required for training and safety purposes. Work is performed outdoors in open fields and can involve exposure to sun, wind, mud, dust, heat, cold and other elements of the normal field environment. Temperatures can range from 20 degrees F to over 100 degrees F during the period of employment. Workers should come prepared with appropriate clothing and footwear for the work and working conditions described.