Truck Driver / Ag Equipment Operator
Employer: Aero Farms LTD
Location: Calamus, IA
Workers needed: 15
Pay: $28.88/hour
Season: Jan 9, 2027 – Oct 15, 2027
Experience: 6 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
The grain farm operation requires assistance with planting, cultivating, harvesting, transportation of products, and equipment maintenance and repair for Corn, Wheat, Oats, Beans, Barley, Rye, Soybeans, and Canola. Under SOC 45-2091, 20% of the work will focus on preparing fields for planting with tractors and attached tillage equipment, connecting plows, discs, planters, sprayers, harvesters, and other implements to tractors, and operating tractors, seed drills, planters, sprayers, combines, and other agricultural machinery to plant, cultivate, weed, spray, and harvest crops. The work also includes applying fertilizer or crop treatments using the specified equipment, setting equipment controls and adjusting operating mechanisms for the assigned task, watching and listening for equipment problems during operation and reporting malfunctions, driving farm trucks or semi-trucks to move crops, tools, and supplies as assigned, inspecting equipment, performing routine servicing, lubrication, adjustments, and minor repairs, recording agricultural work completed and other required operating information, and completing routine repairs and maintenance on equipment. Under SOC 53-3032, 80% of the work will involve driving heavy trucks or tractor-trailer combinations to transport the specified agricultural products or materials, moving harvested crops between fields, storage facilities, elevators, and delivery locations, positioning trucks beside harvesting equipment to receive crops during harvest, connecting and disconnecting trailers and inspecting coupling connections, conducting vehicle inspections before and after trips, checking tires, lights, brakes, fluids, and vehicle safety equipment, positioning trucks and trailers at loading docks, field loading points, and unloading areas, loading and unloading cargo using the assigned handling equipment, distributing cargo appropriately and securing loads with covers, straps, chains, or other restraints, checking cargo documents, delivery instructions, and load information, following assigned routes and communicating delays or delivery changes, obtaining weight tickets and completing applicable shipping or delivery paperwork, maintaining driving, trip, inspection, and vehicle-service records, refueling vehicles and performing authorized routine servicing, reporting mechanical problems, cargo damage, and incidents, and cleaning trucks, trailers, and load-handling equipment. The employer, at its sole discretion, may grant pay increases based on factors such as performance, longevity, and/or experience. Employer may also, at its sole discretion, offer performance-based incentive bonuses that are not guaranteed and are determined by the employer.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration), cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g. adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.
Transport: The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.
Experience wanted: 6 months
Job requires a 75 lb lifting requirement. Must have a Class A CDL or equivalent or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire. The worker must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in English, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records. Employee must have 6 months of verifiable experience.
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