Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
7084 Highway 71
Garwood, TX 77442
United States
Job description
We farm about 1,100 acres of rice annually. Employees will be required to operate tractors and other types of farm equipment such as a combine, must be able to do basic welding and routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. Employees will need to do basic management of water for crops during irrigation and growing season. Employees will drive and operate rice-farm machinery to prepare land, till soil, build ditches and levees, and harvest rice crop. Must be able to hitch farm implements to tractor and drives tractor along existing swaths and contours of rice field to plow and level fields and build or shore up ditches and levees of flood-irrigation system. Plants rice seed, or soaks rice seed in water and loads germinated seed into drill. Loads fertilizer and weed killer into spreader/sprayer. Drives tractor with harrow attachment and operate grain drill. Sets mowing controls and drives combine through fields to cut and thresh rice, stopping to adjust controls when amount of grain observed in chaff and amount of chaff observed in grain hoppers exceed allowable amounts. Transfers grain from combine hopper to grain truck, using transfer auger. Patrols irrigation ditches to detect obstructions and earthen deterioration and removes debris and shores-up levees and ditches with shovel to ensure complete flooding of fields. Starts irrigation pumps, removes levee gates, and breaks apart levees to flood or drain field sections as directed. Performs miscellaneous duties, such as cleaning and lubricating farm equipment, loading and unloading trucks, and repairing buildings and fences. Service of engines and routine maintenance on all farm equipment. Lots of hours on tractors, combines, backhoes and trucks. Expect long hours during planting and harvest seasons.
Special Requirements
Job requires extensive sitting, walking, pushing, pulling, frequent stooping, repetitive movements, and exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have a regular drivers license and 3 months experience.