Farm Worker
Employer
220 East Ash St.
McGehee, AR 71654
United States
Job description
Job duties include maintaining levees; installing and removing levee gates; checking rice fields daily for water levels; performing end of season draining of fields with shovels; participating in irrigation activities including setting up and operating irrigation equipment; clearing and maintaining irrigation ditches; receiving rice crop for drying and storage at grain drying facility; cleaning grain bins, surrounding site, grain pits and work areas; disposing of spoiled grain from pit and elevator area; ensuring hoppers are filled properly in mechanical harvesting; unloading gain bins and loading into trucks; operating tractors, tractor drawn machinery and self-propelled machinery; repairing and maintaining farm vehicles that are both diesel and gas powered, machinery, specialized machinery and agricultural equipment including grain augers associated with module packers and grain bins used for storing and transporting farm products; tilling soil and weeding crops; performing manual shovel work; loading harvested products; using hand tools such as shovels trowels, hoes, tampers, knives, grain scoops and brooms; loading cotton bales; picking up and loading loose cotton; hand chopping and rouge cotton; repairing fences and farm buildings; applying pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers to crops. Workers with licenses may transport workers and may be offered additional work hours.
Special Requirements
See Addendum C.