Job Information
NJ Employer Agricultural Equipment Operators in Marion, New York
Anticipated period of employment: 04/07/2025 to 12/06/2025
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Refuels engine, lubricates machine parts, and monitors machine operations to ensure optimum performance. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, spreaders or mowers to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Drives, maneuvers, navigates and operates one or more mechanized equipment, such as tractors, trucks, and skid steers to perform specified farm activity such as digging trees, planting trees, mowing and spraying. Hitches wagons to tractor, and operates tractor and wagon to move trees to staging area. Drives tractor and operates designated towed machine, such as tree planter, spreader, mower or sprayer to plant, fertilize, mow and spray trees. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions or powders into sprayers. Spray fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases, using hand or engine-powered pump sprayers. Plants seedlings or digs up and transplants seedlings and sets, using hand tools such as spades and shovels. Walks beside or rides on planting machine while inserting plants in planter mechanism at specified intervals. Chops out weeds and trims trees using manual and mechanized equipment working as crewmember. Harvests Christmas trees using chainsaws and mechanized balers. See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description
Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract they may call and/or email the employer to schedule an interview Monday- Friday from 8am to 4pm and referred to NY1523764 as the JO is in connection with this NJ number.
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