Equipment Operator
Employer: Highland Dairy LLC
Location: Sebewaing, MI
Workers needed: 3
Pay: $17.64/hour
Season: Dec 15, 2026 – May 1, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Workers are needed from December until May to use skid steers to scrape manure and mud from concrete cattle areas to include barns, feedlots, and alleyways to maintain hygiene, cattle health, and efficient operations. Workers will maintain areas to be clean, dry and add salt to ensure non-slip surfaces to reduce injury and improve overall cattle welfare during times of freezing, muddy conditions. Workers will keep manure flush system in barns free from frozen buildup around drop holes, check heating elements and replace as needed though out buildings and water troughs, check and rake sand beds to ensure they are not freezing, plow snow and maintain gravel roads. Once the ground thaws and risk of snow and freezing conditions have passed, robotic scrapers are then utilized until the next winter season, worker will maintain and repair these to ensure proper operation prior to use.
Workers are required to work 6 days a week and may be requested to work 7 days a week; workers will alternate days off so that at least one person is working this position daily.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals, this includes basic appliances, pots, pans, utensils, plates, bowls and dish washing facilities for meal preparation etc. The employer will also provide (on a regular weekly basis and at no cost) transportation, to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries.
Transport: The employer offers prearranged chartered or commercial bus, van, or plane whichever is the most economical and reasonable means for the distance involved for the inbound and outbound workers travel. Refer to addendum C for continuation.
Experience wanted: 3 months
Hours listed in Section A.6 are the anticipated hours to be worked. The employer may offer additional work hours or these hours could increase or decrease based on weather conditions, crop delay, pests or disease, crop yield, available labor, and or productivity. Use of electronic devices during work hours is restricted to emergencies only.
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