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Consultants please conduct a seated interview. Dates of need are03/15/2024-11/1/2024. This order is for work in the Mini-Cassia area.Applicant `MUST HAVE` 20 days experience as a general farmworker/irrigator/livestock worker and the name and number of thereference who has first hand knowledge and can verify the workersexperience. Job Duties may require a split shift, such as 5:30 to 9:30AM and 4:00 to 8:00 PM Lifting requirement of 100 lbs Drug Screen DriverRequirements Worker will be required to perform a variety of dutiesrelated to the production of beans, grain, hay, potatoes and sugarbeets. General Farm Work will include the following responsibilities:maintain, drive, attach and operate farm implements/tractors/equipmentto till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize and harvest crops; operateback hoes/front end loaders; operate and shift, load/unload semi truckswith double trailers; make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs onfarm machinery; remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farmgrounds; remove rocks from field; paint farm structures; replace/repairfencing; welding skills to repair fence/pipe/trailer hitches, etc.;perform general clean up of farm areas; drive, load/unload trucks;load/unload and stack ton bales with loader; operate motor bike orall-terrain vehicle in the course of performing duties. Irrigationduties will include the following: Hand lines: connect pipes; checkalignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution; attach linesto water supply; turn on pump; turn valves to start flow of water;disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals;move pipes through freshly irrigated crops and/or plowed fields wheremud may be deep at times; lift and carry pipe sections weighingapproximately 40 pounds on a sustained basis. Wheel lines: startgasoline engines and operate controls to move lines across fields atspecified intervals; minor repairs to wheel lines/motors. Pivots: pushon switch that activates circle sprinkler system. Other IrrigationDuties: remove pipes/wheel lines from storage and lay out/place inpredetermined patterns in fields; lubricate, adjust, repair and replaceparts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using hand tools; observerevolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure proper operation and uniformdistribution of water; disassemble, service/repair and storepipes/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season. To meet minimumacceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, aftera 10 day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-footsections of 3-inch pipe or 44 40-foot sections of 4-inch pipe per hourunder normal working conditions.