Agricultural Equipment Operator

Duncan Family Farms, LLC; Maricopa (AZ); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Agricultural Equipment Operator in the heart of Arizona. The role involves operating various agricultural machinery while following safety protocols and performing essential farming tasks. Ideal candidates will have experience with farm equipment and be ready to contribute to diverse agricultural activities.

Qualifications

• 3 months experience operating farm equipment.
• Ability to comprehend and follow instructions.
• Experience working with herbs and leafy greens.

Responsibilities

• Drive and control equipment for tilling, planting, and harvesting.
• Install and maintain irrigation systems.
• Perform various farming tasks, including weeding and packing harvested products.

Skills

Communication

Equipment Operation

Safety Compliance

Job description

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This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more

information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/7053556

This job order is for 44-2091 Agricultural Equipment Operators: Drive

and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling

soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.\

Workers will use mechanized and power-driven equipment such as tractors,

planters, sprayers, cultivator, and other equipment to plant, cultivate,

harvest, and irrigate crops. Workers will be expected to be able to

operate agricultural equipment with or without direct. Workers must be

able to comprehend and follow instructions, communicate effectively to

supervisors. Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be

supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general

duties in a timely and proficient manner. Workers must obey all safety

rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand, and

Comply With Safety, Pesticide Warning/re-entry And Other Essential

postings. Works with a clean driving record (no major moving violations

such as but no limited to Driving while intoxicated or reckless driving)

and able to obtain an insurable drivers license may be required to drive

company vehicles. Workers with proper licenses will use company vehicles

to transport employers crops, tools and fellow workers.\

Workers will install and maintain irrigation systems and water lines.

Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment, remove drip tubing or

Install Drip Tubing, Dig And Maintain Ditches. Additional Duties

Workers may be required to perform a variety of duties related to the

production of herbs and vegetables. Workers may be required to manually

plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables such as: Green/Red Romaine,

Green/Red Oak, Green/Red Leaf, Mizuna, Arugula, Green/Red Chard, Tatsoi,

Spinach, Kale as well as other types of vegetables, lettuce crops,

Culinary Herbs, Microgreens and other field crops. Workers will be

required to use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers,

pruning hooks, shears and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and

applying fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning

crops, applying pesticides, or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and

loading harvested products. Drivers may be required to assist with farm

building and field maintenance, repair fences, and / or repair or cover

hoop houses. Workers may be asked to perform irrigation activities such

as placing irrigation pipes and fittings. There is a considerable amount

of stooping and kneeling throughout the various tasks being performed.

Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Workers will

be required to dig and prepare ground, till soil and prepare field or

planting, plant pots in fields, remove broken or damaged poles and

install new poles (hoop houses), manually remove weeds by hand or with

digging tools. Workers may be asked to spread plastic or cover crops

with netting materials or plastic and remove them when no longer needed

by hand or machine. Workers may be asked to pack crops in totes, bins,

clamshells, tie or bundle items, weigh product and load product by hand.

Workers may be asked to install and maintain irrigation systems and

water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment, and remove

drip tubing or install drip tubing, dig, and maintain ditches. When work

is performed in the field workers must wear assigned personal protective

equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work

clothing and boots or another durable footwear. Workers wearing clothing

inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.

In addition, workers will be required to perform variable tasks such as

the following: ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation,

and other tasks related to general farming. Workers will also engage in

maintaining the equipment, restroo s, and fields in sanitary condition

by sanitizing equipment, restrooms, lunch tables, picking up packing

material, boxes, labels, trash, and discard of any other unwanted items.

3 months experience operating Farm equipment. Workers should also have

experience working in herbs and leafy greens.\

Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By

way of example and not limitation power equipment may\

include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, and other equipment.

Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural\

equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to comprehend

and follow instructions and communicate effectively to\

supervisors. Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be

supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general\

duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.

Workers must obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be\

able to recognize, understand and comply with safety, pesticide warning

/ Re-entry And Other Essential Postings.

Anticipated Hours of Work: Worker will report to work at the designated

time and place as directed by the Grower each day. The standard workweek

is 8.5 hours per day Monday-Saturday is normal; however, workers may be

requested to work 12+ hours per day depending upon the conditions in the

fields and maturity of the crops but will not be required to do so.

Also, the workers may be requested to work on federal holid

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Farming

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