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　　Consultants please conduct a seated interview. Dates of need are3/10/2024-11/15/2024 This order is for work in Rupert, Idaho 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 6:00 to 11:00a.m. and 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. as well as night shifts spanning twocalendar days due to crop demands. Worker will be required to perform avariety of duties related to the production of alfalfa hay, malt barleyand sugar beets. The majority of the work activities during the overallcontract period, however, will be related to general farmwork/irrigation/crop production. General Farm Work will include thefollowing responsibilities : maintain, drive, attach, and operate farmimplements/tractors/equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize,and harvest crops; make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farmmachinery; may mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriaterestrictive use laws, when/if applicable); remove undesirable and excessgrowth from crops or farm grounds; remove rocks from field;paint/repair/maintain farm structures; replace/repair fencing; performgeneral cleanup of farm areas; drive, load/unload trucks; operatevehicle, motor bike, or all-terrain vehicle in the course of performingduties; transport crops to market; hoist/stack bales of hay ontowagon/truck. Irrigation duties will include the following: Hand lines:connect pipes; check alignment of pipe and adjust for proper waterdistribution; attach lines to water supply; turn on pump; turn valves tostart flow of water; disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields atspecified intervals; move pipes through freshly irrigated crops and/orplowed fields where mud may be deep at times; lift and carry pipesections weighing approximately 40 pounds on a sustained basis. Wheellines: start gasoline engines and operate controls to move lines acrossfields at specified intervals. Pivots: operate, maintain and repairsystem; dig out pivots when they get stuck in the mud; change flattires. Other Irrigation Duties: remove pipes/wheel lines from storageand lay out/place in predetermined patterns in fields; lubricate,adjust, repair, and replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drivechains using hand tools; observe revolving sprinklers and adjust toensure proper operation and uniform distribution of water; disassemble,service, and store pipes/mainlines/wheel lines after irrigation season.To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, theworker must, after a 10-day conditioning period, move an average of atleast 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch pipe or 44 40-foot sections of4-inch pipe per hour under normal working conditions.