Field Workers Irrigators and Ag Equipment Operators

Irrigation Work

• Performs general irrigation work via drip/sprinkler irrigation.
• Performs drip irrigation installation, repair, and maintenance.
• Performs sprinkler installation, repair, and maintenance.
• Starts and stops surface and subsurface irrigation with syphon tubes.
• Maintains irrigation gates to monitor elevation in head water.
• Assists in starting and stopping pumps for surface and subsurface drip irrigated fields.
• Performs maintenance tasks such as bird control, weeding, and trash removal.
• Tractor driving activities for purpose sprinkler irrigation pipe.
• Reports breakdowns and adheres to safety procedures and performance standards.

Required Basic Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of driving a tractor.
• Pass tractor safety training and demonstrate ability to operate tractor in a safe manner.

Agricultural Equipment Operations

• Operates various farm equipment for field preparation tasks such as planting, cultivating, fertilizing, farming, and maintaining farms.
• Attaches and adjusts farm implements to tractors such as discs, plows, lasers, rippers, cultivators, listers, and planters.
• Maintains equipment by conducting daily maintenance checks and ensuring proper operation.
• Operates tractors safely and efficiently over difficult terrain.
• Understands and operates the GPS operating system.

Additional Duties

• May occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties such as cleaning up fields before, during, and after harvest, picking up trash, and performing operations related to sprinkler pipe irrigation, maintenance, and storage.
• Unstacks irrigation pipes from seasonal storage yards and restacks them onto portable trailers, installs them into fields, removes sprinklers from fields, and stacks them in portable trailers.
• In the event of an injury, the company provides a temporary work assignment related to the job duties described, accommodating the injured worker's recovery under specific limitations.

Physical Requirements

• Lift up to 60 lbs.
• Pull, push, walk on uneven ground all day.
• Good eyesight for plant identification and ability to see what to harvest and where to make cuts.
• Good personal hygiene, appropriate clothing and shoes for working in heat/cold/outdoors.
• Ability to take instructions and follow them.
• Use safety equipment correctly.

Experience Requirements

• One month work experience as an irrigator and agricultural equipment operator as defined in this application.