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Crops/Commodities:\
potatoes.\
This job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable prior experience
performing duties associated with operating and performing routine
maintenance on GPS equipped potato farming equipment. Applicants must be
able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party
documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior
experience.
Driving tractors and planters, will plant, cultivate, and harvest
potatoes. Workers will drive and operate one or more GPS equipped farm
machines, such as tractors, Bottom Switch plows, Grimme planters,
Windrowers, line equipment with holding tanks, dry brushers, grading
tables, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, holding tanks,
case-loaders, pivots, pilers, windrowers, Dammer Dykes (cultivators) and
other mechanized, electrically powered or motor-driven equipment, on
farms or in farm equipment repair shops. Workers will operate the farm
machinery, equipment and vehicles. Workers will be instructed in the
safety and operation of the equipment before driving the equipment.
Workers will be expected to be able to operate equipment, with or
without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors,
other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to
comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination.
This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality
specifications must be rigorously adhered to. The equipment workers will
be operating and maintaining is expensive and dangerous. Workers are
expected to follow the employer\'s requests to not only prevent damage
to the equipment, but to also prevent injuries to workers. Any equipment
damaged by a worker\'s failure to follow instructions or damaged due to
malice will be charged to the worker.
Workers may hitch soil conditioning implements, such as plow or harrow
to tractor, and operate tractor and towed implement to furrow and grade
soil. Workers will drive tractors and operate designated towed machines,
such as drill or manure spreader, to plant, fertilize and dust crops.
Prepares harvesting machine by adjusting speeds of cutters, blowers and
conveyors and height of cutting head or depth of digging blades
according to type, height, weight and condition of crop being harvested,
and contour of terrain. Attaches towed or mounted-type harvesting
machine to tractor using hand tools or drives self-propelled harvesting
machine to cut, pull up, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag or bundle crops.
Workers will perform irrigation activities, including setting up, moving
and maintaining irrigation pipes and equipment.
Adjusts and lubricates machines and equipment to ensure efficient
operation.
Workers will be required to prepare farm land for planting. This
includes removing trash, trees, stumps, rocks and any other debris or
material that will interfere with planting and harvesting crops. Workers
will be required to dig ditches for the installation of pipe and to
prevent erosion. Workers may be required to pile the debris up for
burning. Workers may be required to operate rakes for root and limb
removal. Workers may operate dozers, tractors, front end loaders,
bobcats and various other pieces of land clearing equipment. Workers may
be required to level land by moving dirt from one location to another
using equipment.
Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as
but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and
possessing or able to obtain an insurable driver\'s license may drive
company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses may transport other
workers to and from employer-provided housing directly to worksites each
day and may transport workers around farms during the workday, may
transport cro s, supplies, tools and/or equipment/supplies between
employer\'s farm locations, on private or public roads. Workers do not
deliver to customers.
This job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable prior experience
performing duties associated with operating and performing\
routine maintenance on GPS equipped potato farming equipment. Applicants
must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or\
comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s)
establishing acceptable prior experience. Saturday work required.\
Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing
is required upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an
accident at work. Must be willing to work 1st, 2nd or 3rd shift hours.
Workers may drive multi-purpose vehicles that have a capacity of less
than 13 tons, require a standard driver\'s license to operate, and may
be used on or off farm by the workers (e.g., drive to the grocery store,
bank, etc. at their discretion). Workers are not required or expected to
arrange for the routine pick-up of another worker or groups of workers
on a regular schedule at other housing locations or centralized pick-up
points.
Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew and
rain, and may be required to work during light rain, moderate winds,
direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in
fields during working hours can range from 30 to over 100 degrees. Alle