Agricultural Equipment Operator
Employer: Michael Liles
Location: Delhi, LA
Workers needed: 4
Pay: $15.81/hour
Season: Jan 15, 2027 – Nov 15, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
SOC 45-2091 — 100% of work performed. Seasonal employees will assist with the farm’s crop production season on a 2000-acre operation growing corn, rice, and soybeans, beginning with planting and continuing through harvest. Work starts with preparing fields for planting and attaching farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors using bolts and hand tools, then operating tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, manure spreaders, and irrigation equipment to support crop establishment and production across the row crops. Employees will also load and unload crops or materials manually or by using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers, and will load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks. As the season progresses, workers will continue with loading crops and unloading crops, operating equipment to harvest crops, and completing maintenance and repairs on irrigation equipment, while also inspecting, adjusting, and completing routine maintenance and repairs on equipment to keep field operations moving from planting through harvesting. 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. Workers returning for a consecutive season will be paid at their previous season’s rate if that rate exceeds the current published rate.
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: 3 months
Job requires extensive pushing or pulling, frequent stooping or bending over, and a 50 lb lifting requirement. Must possess a valid, standard, non-commercial driver's license (e.g., Class C, D, R, E, F or 3 depending on state). Employee must have 3 months of verifiable experience.
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