Farm Worker Jobs in Arizona

INTRODUCTION

Job requires the operation of various tractors and farm equipment to till soil; and plant, irrigate, fertilize, spray, cultivate, harvest crops, baling hay, packaging and sorting crops, and spreading manure.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Equipment that workers may be required to operate includes, but is not limited to, tractors with various implements, sprayers, combines, border discs, back-hoes, mowers, track-hoes, swathers, hay rakes, tedders, hay steamers, balers, bale wagons, hay lifts, forklifts, and flail choppers. Non CDL farm trucks will be loaded with agricultural products and driven on the farm and to storage facilities. Duties include:

• Participating in irrigation activities including laying pipe, walking length of irrigation pipe to puncture it at set intervals, setting up and operating irrigation equipment, clearing and maintaining concrete-lined irrigation ditches, repairing irrigation ditches by hand, operating well motors, operating and maintaining pivots, draining excess water from fields, and monitoring fields to check on and maintain adequate water supply to crops
• Receiving crop for storage at grain storage facility
• Disposing of spoiled grain
• Transporting grain from fields to grain bins
• Loading and unloading grain into trucks while keeping grain level
• Operating augers and grain conveying equipment
• Monitoring grain moisture levels
• Preparing scale tickets
• Shoveling grain

Manual duties include:

• Hand planting, hand weeding, hand harvesting small plots of organic heirloom crops
• Re-stacking hay bales when necessary
• Performing post-harvest cleaning and processing of crops which may involve assisting in the operation of an air-screening machine, a gravity table, a destoner, a polisher, and an optical color sorter
• Loading seed into planters
• Properly mixing chemicals
• Loading chemicals into sprayers
• Rouging fields and using hand tools to remove undesirable plant varieties, trash, and other objects from fields
• Concrete ditch repairs as necessary
• Monitoring and maintaining property borders
• Performing general maintenance, repairs and/or clean-up of storage sheds, pivot points, buildings, barns and all farm equipment
• Ensuring operational areas are organized and well maintained
• Using hand tools and equipment to repair, clean and maintain farm vehicles, machinery and specialized machinery and agricultural equipment
• Regularly servicing equipment
• Spreading manure

There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often and engage in various general functions. Daily duties may vary depending on crop, weather, and field conditions. The employer reserves the right to increase workers' pay or provide bonuses based on tenure, performance, or other factors that are solely based on the discretion of the employer.

TRAINING

The employer will provide on-the-job training to any worker who meets the minimum job requirements stated in this job order. Training will be provided after hire and will be sufficient to ensure that workers gain the skills, knowledge, and familiarity necessary to perform the duties assigned in a safe and competent manner. Training may include, but is not limited to, instruction on the proper use of tools and equipment; safe operating procedures; worksite policies and practices; procedures unique to the commodities being produced; and any other job-related tasks required under this order. Such training will be conducted without charge to the worker and will occur during regular work hours.