Agricultural Equipment Operators
Employer
10701 State Hwy 164
Arbyrd, MO 63821
United States
Job description
The job duties involve skilled farm labor for the purpose of planting, growing, and harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes. Duties include:
Operating equipment to prepare the land, plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, grow the crop, irrigate, till, and harvest the crop. This includes tractors, forklifts, conveyers, seed cutters, planters, harvesters, disks, chisel plows, diking soil, rolling rows, forming crop rows, transplanting slips, and using 8 row equipment.
Perform maintenance and repairs on all on farm equipment.
Full time supervision is provided. All tools are provided at no cost.
Special Requirements
Workers will be required to obtain or hold the correct type of drivers license as required by state and Federal laws in order to drive to and from fields to perform work.
Twelve months experience is required in commercial farm setting operating the equipment listed in the job description.
Workers must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time. and
Work in extreme temperatures, including work outside, will be required for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather, including direct sunlight, windy/dusty conditions, and rain.
Extensive walking will be required when in the fields to get to and from irrigation units and equipment.
Lifting objects up to 50lbs, bending, twisting, stooping, and repetitive movements will regularly will be required.