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Idaho Employer Agricultural Equipment Operators in Marsing, Idaho
This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2474215
Dates of Need: 2/5/2026-11/30/2026. This application encompasses: agricultural equipment operation irrigation, general farm labor, and growing and harvesting row crops such as hay, corn and triticale.\ This is 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.Maintain and repair fencing\ 8.Perform general clean-up of farm areas\ 9.Drive, unload/load non CDL, farm exempt heavy trucks to haul employers crops, fertilizer, compost and other crop inputs to and from employer worksites\ 10.Husk, shell, de-tassel corn\ 11.Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATVs), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties.
omposting\ -Operate compost equipment as directed\ -Maintain, lubricate, and fuel equipment as needed\ -Check temperature of feedstock and compost\ -Keep proper record keeping\ -Organize, maintain, stack, and move feedstock/compost when needed\ -Clean and remove improper debris, weeds, foreign material from feedstock, compost, or equipment\ -Pile and transport material\ -Load and unload material at desired locations\ -Add/remove moisture when needed. During rain site may be too saturates, during hot days feedstock may need water or wet manure/feedstock applied\ -Maintain processing and storage sites\ -Burn, spray, and pull weeds where needed at processing site.
1.Pitchfork as required\ 2.Operate weed eater as required\ 3.Operate tractor and implement to mow weeds in fields and field edges\ 4.Pull and/or hoe weeds on all properties\ 5.Pick up rocks on properties\ 6.Operate equipment to pack silage, triticale, alfalfa (haylage)\ 7.Operate bale plastic wrapper\ 8.Cover mint, haylage, corn silage, triticale, high-moisture corn waste pits with plastic and tires\ 9.Add and/or remove tires and plastic from silage, triticale, and (alfalfa) haylage pits\ 10.Operate a farm exempt, non-CDL semi-truck to load and unload hop waste from picker facility to compost yard\ 11.Operate farm exempt, non-CDL semi-truck connected to flatbed trailers (hay trailers) to load/unload haybales\ 12.Operate bagger when loading and unloading haylage and/or triticale in bag machine then into large plastic storage bag\ 13.Cut Tires with tire cutting machine.\ 14.Manure/compost hauling to farm fields
Hand Lines\ 1.Connect pipes\ 2.Check the alignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution\ 3.Attach lines to water supply\ 4.Prime/Turn on pump\ 5.Turn valves to start flow of water\ 6.Disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals\ 7.Move pipes through freshly irrigated crop and/or plowed fields where mud may be deep at times\ 8.Lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 60 pounds on a sustained basis\ 9.To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, after a 10-day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch\ pipe per hour under normal working conditions.
Flood Irrigation\ 1.Lift gate inside of flooded irrigation ditch/pipe permitting water to flow into bordered section of field\ 2.Shovel and pack dirt in low spots of embankment of cut trenches in high areas to direct water flow\ 3.Close gates in ditch/pipe when bordered section is floode \ 4.Open gate or connect pipe to underground pipe system that releases water flow into reservoir or ditch\ 5.Siphon water from flooded reservoir or ditch to channel water into designated areas\ 6.Shovel or hoe soil to clear ditches/furrows and build embankments to appropriately channel water\ 7.Mix and apply proper solutions to fill holes/cracks in pipes, ditches, and spillways, and make minor repairs to metal, concrete, and wooden frameworks in pipe and ditch valves and\ gates\ 8.Gated pipe installation and removal. Prime gated pipe system. Open and close all gates on gated pipes as irrigation management requires.\ 9.Direct siphon tubes into specific corrugates to direct water from ditch to field to water crops\ 10.Lift and carry siphon tubes down ditch banks\ 11.Move and store siphon tubes\ 12.Keep siphon tubes in good repair and repair to allow optimum water flow pressure.
Wheel Lines\ 1.Start gasoline engines and operate controls to move lines across fields at specified intervals\ 2.Hook up wheel lines to water supply\ 3.Move wheel lines when needed\ 4.Fix and repair broken wheel lines so that they are in an operational manner\ 5.Fix and repair any water leaks on wheel lines so that they are in an operational manner\ Pivot Irrigat