Farmworker: General (45-2092.00)

Job description

Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute fee to animals. Examine animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical characteristic, such as rate of weight gain. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, Inspect, maintain and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks or other enclosures. May be required to separate/sort livestock according to size and weight. Workers may be required to apply ID tags.

Attend to live farm, and ranch animals that may include cattle, horses and other equines. Duties may include feeding mixing feed, watering, herding, grazing, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas.

Cleans plows, combines, and tractors using scraper and broom. Stacks loose hay, using pitchfork or pitches hay into automatic bailing machine. Stacks bales of hay and loads them onto wagon or truck using a handbook. Workers must be able to work in a bent over position for long periods of time, clearing property, caring wire, posts, and hand tools long distances across rough terrain. Worker must be able to climb ladders and fence. Worker will use hand tools to maintain living area that is used during breeding and birthing process. Clear off farmland to increase planting acreage during spring planting season.

Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate tractors, trucks, and other farm equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Workers with proper licenses will use company vehicles to transport employers’ crops, tools and fellow workers. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.

Special Requirements

All applicants must have at least 2 months experience working on a commercial farm. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.