Ag Equipment Operator

Temporary Position from 3/1/2025 to 12/31/2025

North Dakota Job Order 913648

Job requires the operation of various tractors and farm equipment to till soil; work ground; prepare and maintain land; and plant, irrigate, spray, cultivate, harvest, and transport hay and crops to elevator or storage area. Equipment that workers may be required to operate includes, but is not limited to, tractors with various implements, equipment that utilizes GPS and auto-guidance systems, sprayers, combines, back-hoes, mowers, UTV, haying equipment, swather, pickup trucks, augers, conveyors, forklift, baler, rake, grain cart, haying equipment, and track-hoes. Job requires participating in irrigation activities including operating well motors, operating and maintaining pivots, draining excess water from fields, monitoring fields to check on and maintain adequate water supply to crops; cleaning tips, and checking fluids. Loading seed into planters; properly mixing chemicals; loading chemicals into sprayers; changing combine cutting heads; rouging fields and using hand tools to remove undesirable plant varieties, trash, and other objects from fields; performing general maintenance, repairs and/or clean-up of storage sheds, pivot points, buildings, 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; mowing; trimming; painting farm structures, sweeping as needed; changing tires; checking oil, doing hose repairs; and fueling equipment when needed. Employees will replace and repair property borders as needed and moving cattle to new pastures. 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.

Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Basic English literacy and math skills are required. Job will require periods when workers may be exposed to varying weather conditions and sitting, walking, stooping, or bending.

In view of the statutorily established basic function of the Employment Service (ES) as a no-fee labor exchange that is a forum for bringing together employers and job seekers, neither the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) nor the State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are guarantors of the accuracy or truthfulness of information contained on job orders submitted by employers. Nor does any job order accepted or recruited upon by ES constitute a contractual job offer to which the ETA or SWA is in any way a party.