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Consultants please conduct a seated interview. Applicants must have 20days experience with Farm / Irrigation / Livestock work. Applicantshired must be able to obtain a valid driver\'s license as driving onpublic roads may be required. Applicants must be able to lift up to 100pounds. Dates of need are (3/15/2024 11/1/2024). This order is for workin Carey, Idaho area. Job duties may require a split shift, such as 6:00to 10:00 AM and 4:00 to 8:00 PM. Worker will be required to perform avariety of duties related to the production of grain and hay. Themajority of the work activities during the overall contract period,however, will be related to general farm work/irrigation/cropproduction. General Farm Work will include the followingresponsibilities: make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farmmachinery; perform general clean up of farm areas; 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. Pivots: watch/note and notify employee of problems.Other Irrigation Duties: remove pipes/wheel lines from storage and layout/place in predetermined patterns in fields; lubricate, adjust, repairand replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using handtools; observe revolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure properoperation and uniform distribution of water; disassemble, service andstore pipes/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season. To meetminimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the workermust, after a 10 day conditioning period, move an average of at least 4840-foot sections of 3-inch pipe or 44 40-foot sections of 4-inch pipeper hour under normal working conditions