Custom Harvester

Number of Workers Requested:  3

Workers must be able to listen, understand, and follow the instructions of company supervisors and managers. Workers must be willing to perform all duties according to the employer’s rules and regulations during the contract period. Operates self-propelled custom class harvesting machines to harvest a variety of grain and oilseed silage crops such as corn; adjusts the speed of cutters, blowers and conveyors and height of cutting head, using hand tools; changes cutting head as appropriate for crops; drives truck to transport crops to storage area; drives truck to move harvesting machines between worksites; services machinery, and makes in field repairs; driving farm vehicle; minor daily and incidental up keep to equipment and worksites. Workers will perform a variety of tasks for harvesting using a tractor, such as discing, mowing, floating, cultivating, harvesting. Workers must have prior experience calibrating the equipment. Workers will assist in cleaning and organizing the warehouse, shop, and equipment. Worker needs to know how to calibrate agricultural implements such as chemical spray nozzles, operate backhoes, and perform routine tractor maintenance and basic repairs. Workers will assist in cleaning warehouses. Workers may also occasionally perform irrigation and planting duties, including planting crops, irrigating crops with booster pumps and moving in-out sprinkler systems. Clean fields and ditches. Operate tractors and farm equipment. Assist with planting and maintaining fields. Weeding with crew. Thinning: Workers walk in uneven furrows. Under the direction of the field supervisor, field workers look for the specified gap between seeds. Using a long-handled hoe, they thin out any excess crop/seeds and/or weed on the seed line and leave the desired product and gap on the field. The worker cleans the lot for any unwanted weeds on the beds and seed lines and takes it out of the field as instructed by the field supervisor. Harvest with harvest machine, tractor and trailers. Harvest various crops by hand and or with tractor with crew. Perform sanitation duties, including washing and disinfecting farm equipment. Please see addendum C