Equipment Operator

Highland Dairy LLC; Sebewaing (MI); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Meals provided

Transportation to stores / job sites

Job summary

H2ajobs is seeking workers for a December–May season to operate skid steers for cleaning barns, alleys, and feedlots, ensuring hygiene and cattle welfare in freezing, muddy conditions.

Responsibilities include maintaining dry, safe surfaces, managing manure flush systems, and preparing equipment for the next winter season. Housing and meals are provided; transportation to stores and job sites is arranged.

Qualifications

• Experience preferred in manual farm work and operating basic machinery.
• Willingness to work in outdoor conditions and adaptability to long shifts.

Responsibilities

• Operate skid steers to scrape manure and mud from barns, alleys, and feed areas.
• Maintain cleanliness, dry floors, and salt-treated surfaces to prevent slipping during winter.
• Inspect and repair scraping equipment and water troughs to ensure proper operation in all weather.

Skills

Farm labor

Equipment operation

Tools

Skid steer

Job description

Workers are needed from December until May to use skid steers to scrape manure and mud from concrete cattle areas to include barns, feedlots, and alleyways to maintain hygiene, cattle health, and efficient operations. Workers will maintain areas to be clean, dry and add salt to ensure non-slip surfaces to reduce injury and improve overall cattle welfare during times of freezing, muddy conditions. Workers will keep manure flush system in barns free from frozen buildup around drop holes, check heating elements and replace as needed though out buildings and water troughs, check and rake sand beds to ensure they are not freezing, plow snow and maintain gravel roads. Once the ground thaws and risk of snow and freezing conditions have passed, robotic scrapers are then utilized until the next winter season, worker will maintain and repair these to ensure proper operation prior to use.

Workers are required to work 6 days a week and may be requested to work 7 days a week; workers will alternate days off so that at least one person is working this position daily.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals, this includes basic appliances, pots, pans, utensils, plates, bowls and dish washing facilities for meal preparation etc. The employer will also provide (on a regular weekly basis and at no cost) transportation, to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries.

Transport: The employer offers prearranged chartered or commercial bus, van, or plane whichever is the most economical and reasonable means for the distance involved for the inbound and outbound workers travel. Refer to addendum C for continuation.

Experience wanted: 3 months

Hours listed in Section A.6 are the anticipated hours to be worked. The employer may offer additional work hours or these hours could increase or decrease based on weather conditions, crop delay, pests or disease, crop yield, available labor, and or productivity. Use of electronic devices during work hours is restricted to emergencies only.