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Gorrell Dairy Ag Equipment Operator in Milan, Pennsylvania
This is a Temporary Position. Dates of employment are* 3/13/2025 to 12/15/2025. To apply: click on "I want to apply". Resumes and/or applications can also be emailed to *Cheryl Stanton at cstanton@pa.gov. Be sure to reference the job posting number(21012455) on your resume/application.
Minimum of 3 months of experience is required. Must be able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Lift and carry items weighing up to 60 pounds. Extensive sitting is required. Wage rate may increase with verifiable experience. Employer may reward exceptional work with monetary or other benefits in addition to those listed here in his sole discretion.
Performs duties like:
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions..
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Help in the general maintenance of the farm buildings as well as the equipment.
- Maintain farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools or farm workers.
Crops: Corn, Hay, Triticale