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Idaho Department of Labor Agricultural Equipment Operators in Marsing, Idaho
This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2233653
Dates of Need: 8/30/2024-11/30/2024. This application encompasses: irrigation, general farm labor, and growing and harvesting row crops such as hay, corn and triticale and hops. This job requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor experience. The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
General Farm Work will include the following duties\ 1. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops\ 2. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery\ 3. May mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable)\ 4. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds\ 5. Remove rocks from fields, edges fields, concrete ditches, etc.\ 6. Paint, maintain, repair, farm structures\ 7. Replace, repair fencing\ 8. Perform general clean-up of farm areas\ 9. Drive, unload/load non CDL, farm exempt heavy trucks to haul employer\'s crops, fertilizer, compost and other crop inputs\ 10. Husk, shell, de-tassel corn\ 11. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATVs), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties.
Hop harvest tasks\ Picker:\ 1. Must be able to guide transport vehicles to unloading spot.\ 2. Load hops into picking machines. Must be able to operate wheel loader and/or telehandler to load hops onto picking machines and making sure the machine stays consistently full to run at full capacity.\ 3. Clean up vines, hops, or plant material that falls out.\ 4. Monitor, adjust, and maintain picker regularly.\ 5. Clean and sweep material during picking process.\ 6. Notify supervisor when something needs to be addressed.\ 7. Assist operators during repair, breakdown, or clean up\ 8. Monitor and adjust controls regularly.\ *Employees working in these positions consist of being on your feet throughout the entire shift.
Dryer/Kiln Room:\ 1. Measure and adjust floor layer height.\ 2. Employees must also be able to lay each kiln floor and roll them up with machine. This consists of laying the floor sheet and prepping the floor before hops are being laid to be dried.\ 3. Adjust belts as needed.\ 4. Monitor screens and dry status.\ 5. When ready, walk to controls and turn on fan, and then burner that designed to each floor/kiln.\ 6. Make sure burner is ignited.\ 7. Observe burners so they are at correct temps and flow.\ 8. Inspect and probe hop beds.\ 9. Turn off burner and then fan.\ 10. Connect cloth to pipe, roll up door, and empty floor.\ 11. Sweep and clean up hops than may spill off belts.\ 12. Must be able to pick sticks and debris out of hops being laid in hop kiln.\ 13. Inspect, clean, and record magnet cleaning between shifts.\ 14. Clean hardware regularly.\ 15. Pile dry hops in designated area.\ a. Employees working in these positions consists of being on your feet throughout the entire shift and must be able to work in extreme temperatures.
Baling:\ 1. The baling positions consist of being on your feet throughout the shift and being able to lift/move bales that weigh 200+/- pounds with assistance.\ 2. Condition dry hops accordingly to variety and amount.\ 3. Load hops onto central conveyor.\ 4. Fill hoppers to correct amount.\ 5. Apply bale wraps onto correct areas.\ 6. Fill balers and compress hops into bales using baling machine.\ 7. Must be able to sew bales with sewing machine and hand stitch bales properly.\ 8. Probe bale moisture on all bales.\ 9. Record baled date, variety, weight, moisture, and any other available necessary data.\ 10. Cut open, break up, mix, and re-bale out of spec product.\ 11. Organize, separate, & stack bales/bale lots accordingly.\ 12. Load/unload lots into designated spots and areas.\ 13. Sweep and clean baling facility regularly.\ 1 . Apply mineral oil in finished area.\ 15. Employees must be able to make sure baling machines are operating properly and at capacity.\ 16. Must be able to repair and maintain machines, if needed.\ 17. Balers may mark each bale with printer machine.\ 18. Must be able to operate hyster to move hops around the vicinity such as from baling room to cold storage, load, and unload hops onto flatbed trailers and into reefer & dry van trailers for transport.
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