Agricultural Equipment Operator at Arkansas Staffing Moro, AR

Downtown Boulder Partnership; Moro (AR); On-site; USD 16,531 - 22,041; Full time

Job summary

Downtown Boulder Partnership seeks a Seasonal/Temporary Agricultural Equipment Operator to manage field operations, including planting, spraying, and harvesting tasks. You will operate tractors, sprayers, planters and other high-horsepower equipment, ensuring proper calibration and safe handling of materials.

This role requires vigilance to detect malfunctions and maintain irrigation and equipment. This seasonal position runs Feb–Mar and involves supporting farm crews with timing and efficiency

Qualifications

• Experience operating farm equipment such as tractors, sprayers, planters.
• Ability to observe, listen and respond to machinery operation to detect malfunctions.

Responsibilities

• Mix specified materials or chemicals and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
• Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weeds and diseases.
• Observe machinery operation to detect malfunctions and adjust controls as needed.
• Operate or tend large, high horsepower farm equipment (tractors, combines, sprayers, planters, etc.) to produce crops.
• Adjust machinery and notify supervisors when malfunctions occur.
• Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farmworkers.
• Attach implements to tractors using bolts and hand tools.
• Operate towable machines to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
• Irrigate soil and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps.

Skills

Machinery operation

Equipment monitoring

Truck driving

Job description

Seasonal/Temporary Agricultural Equipment Operator

• Mix specified materials or chemicals and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
• Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery for cultivating, planting, spraying, watering, harvesting, storing crops.
• Operate or tend large, high horsepower farm equipment used in agricultural production such as tractors, combines, sprayers, planters, grain carts, and mowers to produce crops such as cotton, corn, and soybeans.
• Adjust farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
• Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farmworkers.
• Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, and planters to tractors using bolts and hand tools.
• Operate towed machines such as seed drills or spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
• Irrigate soil using portable pipes or ditch systems and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps by rolling out pipe and poking holes.
• Approximate staggered entry: 10 workers to begin Feb 1 and 2 workers to begin March 1.