Equipment Operator
Employer
Home Farm: 12163 E Lippincott Blvd.
Davison, MI 48423
United States
Job description
FARM EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: General farm equipment operators will be required to operate different types of farm machinery used for soil preparation, planting, harvesting and processing. Mechanical skills and aptitude are needed to operate various machines including tractors, forklifts, mowers, discs, planters, transplanters, cultivator, back blades, trailers, side-by-side UTV, and other farm equipment. Operation requires worker to frequently lift up to 60 pounds and adjust body position to bend, stoop, stand, walk, turn, pivot, stand and sit for long periods of time. Equipment/tractors range in size from 40 HP to 250 HP. Employer will provide training.
Tractor: Worker may be required to drive tractor at/to/from work sites. Tractor driving may include additional attachments that assist with planting, harvesting, maintaining, cleaning, cultivating, transporting or transplanting. Employer will provide additional training for this task.
Trucks/Trailers: Worker may be required to drive truck and other farm vehicles with or without trailer through farm lanes and other off-road property.
Sod Harvest: Worker will operate sod harvester along field rows, harvesting sod in a straight line. Worker must monitor the equipment during operation and report any mechanical issues to the supervisor.
Forklift: Operate forklifts to move sod pallets as directed by supervisor. This includes loading, unloading, and transferring sod pallets to/from trucks trucks and trailers or from storage areas, machines and loading docks, to areas assigned by supervisor. Worker will be trained to operate forklift machines.
Mowing: Worker will be required to monitor the quality of landscaping, as well as prevent and control weeds. Mowing involves driving mower or operating weed whipper, to cut grass and weed around farm buildings as instructed by supervisor.
Cultivating: Worker may stoop, bend and use special tools to remove weeds and maintain sod fields. Tractor mounted row cultivator tool may be used for the mechanical removal of weeds via a three-point mounted row cultivator. Worker may be required to lift up to 60 pounds.
Disking: Worker will operate tractor with disk implement to remove weeds, and other materials as instructed from designated work areas. Disk will be used to till the soil where sod is to be planted, to chop up unwanted weeds, or to crop remainders. Worker will ensure that the disks repeatedly slice any ground to which they are applied in order to optimize the result of the soil.
Bin Spreading: Worker may be required to drive tractor with trailer attachment into fields with boxes/bins and load onto trailer. Worker will spread boxes/bins with forklift throughout worksites as directed by supervisor.
Pay will be hourly.
Special Requirements
Two verifiable months of commercial agriculture experience required. Applicants must furnish job reference from recent employer within the last 5 years establishing acceptable prior experience.
Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for and worker agrees to work every day that work is available for entire employment period.
Worker must be able to perform job description duties in safe manner consistent with established safety procedures.