Ag Equipment Operator

at Kuntz Farms in Quinter, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Operate self-propelled equipment that reaps, harvests, threshes, swathes, or winnows crops; perform manual or mechanical adjustments to equipment; perform safety checks on equipment; maintain and repair equipment and other tools; transport crops to elevators, silos, or other storage areas, and transport equipment and other tools used for harvesting from one field to another. On fields controlled/operated by Kuntz Farms: Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops such as working with bins and augers to load carts and trailers; Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment; Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery (much of which is equipped with GPS) such as planter, sprayer, tillage tool to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops; Load inputs and drive trucks to transport to fields, load crops and drive trucks to transport to fields and storage facilities such as elevators, bins, silos, piles/bags; workers that drive truck to transport crops from fields to storage may possess a CDL. Clean work areas and maintain grounds and landscaping; Haul and spread manure, fertilizer, and other materials to condition soil; Mix materials, dump solutions or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery; Attach implements using hand tools. Must speak and understand English.

Housing is provided.  Reimbursement for transportation and subsistence is also offered.  Transportation will be provided at no cost to workers, from employer-provided housing and, if applicable, centralized pick-up points to the places of employment at the beginning of each workday and back at the end of each work day. Please contact employer for further details.