What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agricultural Equipment Operators position at Black Gold Farms Inc?
The job specifications involve agricultural equipment operation and general farm labor.
This is a temporary need for during the planting, growing, and harvest season of the potato crop.
Job duties include:
The potato seed needs to be unloaded, graded, sized, cut, treated, and suberized prior to planting.
This process involves operating conveyers, unloaders, bobcats, forklifts, seed treatment machines and seed cutting machines.
Other responsibilities include sorting, sizing and grading potatoes by hand, including sorting out green, rotten or other low quality potatoes as they pass on a conveyor.
Cleaning potato storage bins.
Applying seed treatment to the potato seed.
Notify supervisor of any potato quality issues.
Use bobcat to unload seed potatoes or to move them around the farm.
Find proper location for potatoes and use bobcat to move potatoes to its designated areas. Ensure that all potatoes are placed in the right place and do not mix with one another.
Load potato seed into transport equipment.
Monitor seed while it is waiting to be planted.
Safely and correctly drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools. Perform duties in accordance with established safety standards and proper vehicle operation techniques.
Attach trailers.
Safely and correctly loading/unloading of hoppers, containers, trailers with potatoes.
Weigh crop-filled containers at the farm location, record weights and other identifying information as required.
Conduct repairs to seed preparation equipment.
Operating potato agriculture equipment to prep the land for planting, including disks and chisel plows, hooking up tractor implements, troubleshooting equipment.
Operate potato planter. Operating technology on the equipment, including GPS guidance systems / autosteer, planter monitors, harvest monitors.
Bringing fertilizer tanks to the field by driving a pickup.
Mix and measure crop input chemicals for application.
Setting up and operating irrigation pumps and running irrigation.
During growing season, duties include monitoring the growth of the crop and any issues that may occur, conducting petiole and crop sampling, working on tillage equipment, including disks, chisel plows and tractors. Hooking up implements to the tractors.
Set up, maintain, repair and operate harvest equipment, including washlines, conveyers, tractors, bobcats, windrowers, and harvesters.
Other general agriculture duties include monitoring fields for weeds, diseases and insects. Digging potatoes by hand for sampling and sizing. Taking leaf and dirt samples.
Preparing farm site so the area is ready for harvest time operations. This includes installing washline and other potato handling equipment and conducting maintenance.
Responsibilities also include preparing potato handling equipment and harvesters.
During harvest, responsibilities include operating the potato piler, bobcat, potato harvester, wind rower and tractors.
Other duties include performing general basic maintenance and welding as needed on potato equipment. Report any equipment repair needs to the supervisor.
Report any issues to supervisor.
General site cleanup and general farm work is included as part of the position.
All tools will be provided at no cost.
Salary : $18