Agricultural Equipment Opereator
Employer
6700 Lake Ave
Williamson , NY 14589
United States
Job description
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- 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, combines, 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.
- 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.
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Summer pruning trees, planting trees, orchard maintenance, climb ladders, pick apples from trees, harvest apples, trellis work, general building maintenance, bin repair, hand thinning, mowing and spraying with tractor. 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 tractor experience with spraying and mowing using a tractor