Agricultural Equipment Operator

H2ajobs; Fort McCoy (FL); On-site; USD 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation to town

Job summary

Commercial Industrial Corporation’s farm division operates across 15,000+ acres in central Florida, performing planting, irrigating, spraying, and harvesting using tractors, planters, and irrigation systems. Workers assist in field preparation, equipment operation, and maintenance throughout the year, with housing and meals provided and weekly town transportation offered.

Experience preferred (3 months) and a valid driver’s license is required.

Qualifications

• 3 months farm experience or training.
• Regular driver’s license.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Prepare fields for planting and operate tractors, planters, sprayers, and harvesters.
• Attach farm implements to tractors using bolts and hand tools.
• Irrigate soil and maintain irrigation equipment and pivots.
• Plant trees, weed, spray, and harvest crops as needed.
• Fertilize, dust, and spray crops to control pests and diseases.
• Load and unload crops and materials; operate conveyors and forklifts as needed.
• Maintain and repair irrigation equipment and machinery.
• Drive trucks to haul crops and perform routine maintenance.

Job description

The farm division of Commercial Industrial Corporation manages over 15,000 acres in central Florida. On some of this property, cereal crops such as oats, hay, sorghum, millet, and rye that belong to the grass family Poaceae or Gramineae are grown and harvested. Our crops have different planting/harvesting seasons that mainly run from November to August. With so much property, there is a tremendous amount of preparation, managing, and maintenance involved such as disking, seeding/planting, fertilizing/spraying, operating, and maintaining pivots, water lines, lots of mowing, and maintaining and building fence lines. Maintaining the farm equipment and implements is a necessity in our operation. September/October are not as busy as the other 10 months for our operation.

Job duties will include: prepare fields for planting; attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools; operate tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, manure spreaders, and irrigation equipment; plant trees; engage in planting, weeding, spraying, and/or harvesting activities; fertilize, dust, and spray crops; spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases using hand sprayers; irrigate soil using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps; install, maintain, and repair pivot irrigation systems; load and unload crops or materials manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers; load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks; manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery; mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into machinery; observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions; position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers; walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals; attach equipment extensions or accessories; operate equipment to harvest crops; complete maintenance and repairs on irrigation equipment; drive trucks to haul crops and complete routine maintenance and repairs on equipment. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience.

• Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
• Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration),cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g., adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.
• Transport: The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.

Experience wanted: 3 months

Employer will conduct post-hire drug tests at no cost to the employee to enforce a drug free workplace policy. Failing a drug test will result in termination. Job requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Must have a regular driver's license. Requires 3 months farm experience.