Agricultural Machine Operator

This job requires a minimum of three months of prior verifiable experience operating, repairing, and maintaining agricultural equipment including forklifts, planters, cultivators, and tractors on a diversified fruit/vegetable crop farm. Crops grown on the farm include sweet corn, tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplants, zucchini, squash, gourds, peppers, melons, and other commodities. Workers must be able to perform all duties with accuracy and efficiency. Workers must be able to diagnose problems and repair farm machinery, engines and machines including but not limited to tractors, forklifts, harvest equipment, irrigation and spraying equipment. Workers will plant seeds and/or plants using various vacuum planters and planting machinery and implements in seasonal holding houses and in the fields: Workers may also plant a cover crop in fields post-harvest, such as rye seed while operating the John Deer tractor and seed drill. Workers may be offered other general agricultural duties associated with fruit/vegetable farming, including building upkeep/maintenance, building and repairing fences, mowing around barns and similar tasks. Workers will perform equipment maintenance including changing oil, transmission fluids and other basic functions. Workers will operate machinery in the field for long periods of time including discs, subsoilers, turbotiller, tillers, cultivators, field cultivators, drills, shredders, combines, hillers, plastic layers, plastic layers and removers, plows and other various field implements. Workers may install, maintain, monitor and winterize irrigation equipment and wells. Workers may assist in loading trucks with packaged produce or machinery equipment, such as propane tanks or tools weighing from 50 to 60 pounds and lifting such weights to a height of 5 feet. Workers will build, cover/uncover and maintain greenhouses and their heaters. Workers may also serve as crew leaders or points of contact for their individual areas throughout the season. Workers may be responsible for some paperwork relating to food safety documentation and production records. This includes ensuring the crew is supplied from company inventory with sufficient water, disposable cups, hand sanitizer, soap, toilet paper, rubber gloves, hair nets, chlorine, and any other supplies necessary in order for the crew to complete their duties in a manner that is compliant with our food safety program. Workers are exposed to wet weather, early mornings, summer heat, and cold fall weather. Temperatures may range from 10 degrees to 100 degrees. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodation.

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