Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer
3249 Rairden Ln
Worland, WY 82401
United States
Job description
Job duties involves working with crops and livestock. This includes operating
tractors, spraying equipment, feed truck, loaders, combines, and balers.
Employees will transport crops and products that are purchased such as beet
pulp, straw, and hay. Employees will swath, bale, rake, stack, and haul alfalfa. For
barley the employees will plant, spray, combine, haul, transfer to grain bins, and
re-haul it out. Duties in relation to corn include planting, combining, grinding feed
crop, and haling. For sugar beets the employees will plant, spray, defoliate, dig,
and haul the crop. Employees will also work with hay and straw by swathing,
raking, baling hay and straw, stacking straw, hauling hay and straw, and
operating combine on the application. Employees will also help run irrigation
pivots, perform mechanical repairs to pivots, change flat tires on pivots, clean
screens, replace broken parts on pivots, fill in pivot tracks with hauling rocks, lay
and pick up gated pipe, and perform mechanical repairs on other equipment on
the farm when necessary. Workers will also clean equipment, clean loaders,
tractors, trucks, trailers, and work facilities. Duties include working with cattle.
This involves processing, branding, walking pens, doctoring, feeding, cleaning
pens, vaccinating, installing and repairing rubber on feed bunks keeping record of
shots given, hauling and moving cattle, and trailing cattle on horseback or on
ATV. Employees will build fences, repair fences, burn stubble in fields and corn
stalks, work on water facilities, load and unload grain bins, and grind corn, barley,
and wheat. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change
duties and/or locations often, and engage in various general functions. Daily
duties may vary depending on crop, weather, and field conditions. Pay increase
or bonus may be possible to employees depending on experience or merit and
are at the sole discretion of the employer
Special Requirements
Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire and having basic English literacy and math skills. CDL needed for operation of semi trucks when transporting crops. Must be able to lift 50 pounds. Extensive pushing and pulling apply when laying gated pipe and picking it up. Extensive sitting or walking applies when walking pens and sitting in tractors and trucks. Frequent stooping and bending is also involve when performing job duties. Moderate cell phone use is allowed at the worksite.