Farm Worker
Employer
3340 Hwy 434
Rolling Fork , MS 39159
United States
Job description
Job requires operating farm equipment including, but not limited to, tractors with various implements, back hoes, semi-trucks, and mowers to prepare and work land and plant, irrigate, cultivate, harvest, and transport crops to elevator or storage area. Job will also involve working with irrigation equipment such as poly pipe and well motors; monitoring water levels in fields to ensure crops receive adequate water supplies; cutting grass; performing mechanical repair and maintenance on field equipment; cleaning equipment and farm shop locations; using hand tools in the fields for repair and maintenance and to remove undesirable plants and objects from fields; performing work in and around grain bins; shoveling, leveling, and sweeping grain; transferring grain between bins and to trucks; operating augers and other automatic grain moving equipment; maintaining irrigation ditches. Daily duties may vary. Increase or bonus may be possible depending on experience or merit.
Special Requirements
Employees must be able to lift poly pipe, chemicals, and weights for tractors as well as tires. Employees will experience the hot, humid MS summer. They will be sitting in tractors, walking poly pipe, picking things up around the farm shop as well as poking holes in poly pipe. Drug screening and criminal background check may be done post hire at the employer's expense to ensure safety at and around the worksite.