Agriculture Equipment Operator

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties:

Harvesting Potatoes: Using hands and picking up potato off ground and placing into harvest sacks. Once sack is filled, worker must caring the 30-50 lbs sack and place onto the harvest vehicle in the field and repeat the procedure. Workers must follow all harvest guideline request of the type, size and quality instructed by supervisor in the field.

Farm packing of Potato crop: The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors.

Harvest Dumper: Harvest dumper is required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting containers and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Bucket produce will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket to the harvesting employee. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) on top of the full container and continue the process.

Operating Harvest Farm Equipment: The worker is required to operate harvest transport equipment from work site to farm loading destination during scheduled work days. The workers is required to preform a maintained record and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers is required to maintained equipment clean and use materials to maintain harvest transport equipment properly clean.

Special Requirements

Drug/Alcohol Testing: E-Berry Harvest may conduct criminal background and/or drug screening at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment. Failure to pass criminal background check and/or drug screening is grounds for termination.