Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated with the repair of gin machinery and equipment for upcoming year (off season gin work). Such duties are routine maintenance on machinery and equipment inside and outside the cotton gin. Replacing worn bearings, brushes, saws, or any parts that are worn from the previous gin season. Duties may also include painting, nailing, cleaning, lifting, and roof repair to gin, warehouses or workers housing. Help in shipping cotton/prepping loads for shipment, help loading out stored cotton in preparation of ginning of cotton. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending and lifting up to 75 pounds.

General Duties: Preventative maintenance, sweeping gin, general cleaning, lifting, driving forklift, skid steer loader, driving tractor, pulling sample from bale, placing label on bale, loading seed trucks both out of over-head bins and with elevator, loading baled cotton trucks, helping keep track of bale numbers, removing tarps (both conventional modules and round modules) from cotton modules and tying out mote bales.

Workers may also be asked to load cottonseed and cotton from warehouses in Swansea and North, SC.

Special Requirements

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.