Agricultural Equipment Opereator
Employer
7588 Quarry Rd
Sodus, NY 14551
United States
Job description
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, UTV, and irrigation equipment.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.- Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Summer pruning trees, planting trees, orchard maintenance, climb ladders, pick apples from trees, harvest apples and use tractor to bring apples out of the orchard, maintain fence, bin repair, hand thinning, mowing and spraying with tractor, tractor driving work. Those that are requested to drive will be required to possess an appropriate license, no one will be rejected for this position that does not possess a drivers license.
Special Requirements
6 months verifiable experience