Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
6229 Highway E
Palmyra, MO 63461
United States
Job description
We are a row crop farm. We plant and harvest corn, wheat, and beans. We plant in the spring, with harvest in the summer for wheat and in the fall for the rest of the crops. Job duties will include preparing fields for planting; attaching farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools; operating tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, and manure spreaders; operating other farm equipment; engaging in planting, weeding, spraying, and harvesting activities; fertilizing, dusting, and spraying crops; loading and unloading crops or materials manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers; loading hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks; manipulating controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery; mixing specified materials or chemicals and dumping solutions, powders, or seeds into machinery; observing and listening to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions; attaching equipment extensions or accessories; loading and unloading crops; operating equipment to harvest crops; driving pickup trucks to haul crops, supplies, and tools; and inspecting, adjusting, and completing routine maintenance and repairs on equipment.
Special Requirements
Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Requires 3 months farm experience.