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　　Consultants please conduct a seated interview. Dates of need are3/15/2024-10/15/2024. 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 General Farm Workwill include the following responsibilities: maintain, drive, attach andoperate farm implements/tractors/equipment to till soil, plant,cultivate, fertilize and harvest crops; remove rocks from field; performgeneral cleanup of farm areas; drive farm pick-up. Irrigation dutieswill include the following: Hand lines: connect pipes; check alignmentof pipe and adjust for proper water distribution; attach lines to watersupply; turn on pump; turn valves to start flow of water; disassemblelines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals; move pipesthrough freshly irrigated crops and/or plowed fields where mud may bedeep at times; lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 40pounds on a sustained basis. Wheel lines: start gasoline engines andoperate controls to move lines across fields at specified intervals.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. Duties related to theCutting/Sorting of Seed Potatoes will include the following: Will applytechniques as instructed by the employer to cut and sort potatoes by:using knife to cut potato into sections; place potatoes on machine thatcuts potatoes into sections; push button to start machinery;tend/monitor machine to insure proper movement of product; discarddiseased/rotting/inferior product and foreign matter; reportmalfunctions; general cleanup. Duties related to the Harvesting ofPotatoes will include the following: Will apply techniques as instructedby the employer to: remove rocks from rows in front of harvestingequipment; discard diseased/rotting product, rocks and foreign matter;alert equipment operator of equipment clogging/malfunctions; aidoperator in correct machine performance. Worker will be required toperform a variety of duties related to the production of alfalfa, maltbarley and potatoes.