Agricultural Equipment Operators
Employer
27240 Peckham
Wilder, ID 83676
United States
Job description
This application encompasses maintaining an operating hop farm machinery and equipment as well as irrigation equipment and systems. Workers will also do farm labor duties and assist with hop harvest.
This job requires a minimum of three months of agricultural equipment operator experience.
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
General Conditions:
Specific Job Requirements:
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
*Maintain and operate drip irrigation equipment. Record irrigation times and evaluate need for repairs and adjustments to the irrigation system.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions or powders into sprayer machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, hop harvesting equipment (top cutters, bottom cutters, picking machines) and irrigation equipment.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers or shovels.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Operate towed machines to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Assist in hop harvest duties.
Workers may also do weeding, as well as clear debris and garbage from fields and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas.
Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs.
Special Requirements
Per 20 CFR 655.135 (j), The employer and its agents have not sought or received payment of any kind from any employee subject to 8 U.S.C. 1188 for any activity related to obtaining H-2A labor certification, including payment of the employer's attorneys' fees, application fees, or recruitment costs. For purposes of this paragraph, payment includes, but is not limited to, monetary payments, wage concessions (including deductions from wages, salary, or benefits), kickbacks, bribes, tributes, in kind payments, and free labor.
This provision does not prohibit employers or their agents from receiving reimbursement for costs that are the responsibility and primarily for the benefit of the worker, such as government-required passport, or visa fees. Worker will be reimbursed should the worker receive a visa and arrive at the place of work.