Agricultural Equipment Operator

Anticipated period of employment: 06/14/2025 to 11/08/2025Requires a minimum of three months verifiable prior experience in commercial conventional farming in the jobs listed. Will require exposure to extreme temperatures, lifting 60 lbs, repetitive movements, extensive pushing and pulling, extensive walking, and bending. Those that are requested to drive will be required to possess an appropriate license; no one will be rejected for this position that does not possess a driver's license. Workers will perform any combination of the following duties involved in planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops on diversified-crop farm, such as broccoli, cabbage, sweet corn and squash. Will stand for long periods, weeding and thinning plants using hoe with no damage to crops. Willbend, pull weeds, rocks and dirt. Will harvest crops using appropriate method, such as picking, pulling, and cutting. Crop harvesting will require 6-12 hour days, cutting with a knife, bending and carrying product, and lifting product into boxes. Product to be cut as directed. Duties may include packing and loading harvested products in the fields. Will select and hand harvest product to be hand placed in wagons and/or boxes, and participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops and assist in field tallies. May operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to cultivate and harvest crops. May load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities. May operate trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to transport workers from housing to farm properties; haul tools, supplies, or crops; transport workers from place to place around the farm properties during the workday (including on public roads to reach fields); and/or transport workers to the grocery store or bank on an as-needed basis. May participate in running, maneuvering, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts or passenger vehicles.***See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description***Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract contact employer by phone Monday through Friday during the hours of 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM ET.Referred to NY1531066 as the CO is in connection with this NJ number.See AOSOS comment section before making a referral