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:

Operating Farm Equipment: The worker is required to operate and move farm equipment on the farm. Inspection of equipment and checking of all fluids will be performed daily.

Farm Bus operator: The worker is required to operate Bus from housing to work site or farm destination during scheduled workdays. The workers are required to perform a maintained record and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers are required to maintained equipment clean and use materials to maintain bus properly clean.

Operation of Harvest transport equipment: The worker is required to operate harvest transport equipment from housing to work site tor farm packing destination during scheduled workdays. The workers are required to perform a maintained record and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers are required to maintained equipment clean and use materials to maintain harvest transport equipment properly clean.

Field Leader: The worker is to help on farm daily task. Move equipment on farm, fill water kegs with water and ice and provide to workers using harvest vehicles.

Harvest Dumper: Harvest dumper is required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting equipment and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Buckets weigh approximately 32-35 lbs. when filled with product and 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 placing a token inside the bucket for them to receive. 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.

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. If operating a company vehicle during the period of employment the driver must possess a valid CDL Class B issued by the United States or foreign equivalent license to operate the company passenger bus in accordance with license restrictions and vehicle classification applicable to that license.