Farm Worker

Job description

Employees will operate equipment such as combine, sprayer, tractors, UTV, 18-wheelers (automatic and standard), and pickup trucks. Employees will perform field prep work and maintenance which includes tillage work, ditch mowing, turn road smoothing, pulling beds, and pulling middles; planting crops with tractor and planter or drill; drive a ton truck with seed cart to field and load planters; spraying crops with self propelled sprayer and driving 18-wheeler with water tanker; harvesting crops with combine, driving grain cart, and driving 18-wheeler to elevator and back to field; backhoe and blade work such as installing culverts, cleaning out ditches, etc.; irrigate crops by laying poly pipe with machine, poking holes in pipe, monitoring pivots, monitoring row rice water levels, performing minor pivot repairs and poly pipe repairs, working with 100% electric irrigation equipment and 80% automated, no power units; spot spray culverts, turn roads, and wells with UTV and hand sprayer; weed eating and mowing with a zero turn around some of the farms; shop work and equipment repairs; maintain a clean and organized farm shop and do some equipment repairs and maintenance; change oil, service equipment, service trailer trucks, rebuild planter, wash equipment with pressure washer, etc. Duties also include manual labor such as daily equipment repairs and maintenance; possibly working with levee gates, light big weeding with a hoe the escapes in fields when needed; loading chemical for sprayer; tarping 18-wheelers; weed eating around farm (wells, culverts, telephone poles, places we can't get the mowers); hooking and unhooking equipment; sweeping shop and keeping it picked up; loading planters (usually with seed cart belt, but occasional loading with paper sacks to finish off a field); poly pipe (poking holes and repairing pipe, we have a poly pipe machine for rolling out and picking up). Other equipment that will be operated by employees includes GPS equipment, planter, grain drill, backhoe, grain cart, chisel plow, listers, disc, land plane, roller, mower, forklift, and side by side. Employees will perform custom Must have 3 months of experience, a drivers license or the ability to obtain one within 30 days of hire, and basic English literacy, reading, and math skills. Increase or bonus may be possible depending on experience and merit.

Employees will perform custom harvesting duties only at the locations listed in the itinerary. All other duties will be performed at Riddick Farms III, LLC worksite location.

Special Requirements

Drug screening and criminal background check may be done post hire at the employer's expense to ensure safety on and around the worksite. Employees must be able to lift 75 pounds, will be sitting in tractors for long hours, and walking irrigation pipe. Repetitive movements could be loading seed bags and chopping big weeds.