What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grove Equipment Operator position at King Ranch?
What to Expect in the Role:
- Demonstrate competency to operate and attach/hook-up all farm equipment and vehicles, including specialized heavy equipment
- Visually inspect equipment and vehicles daily and report deficiencies
- Operate track hoe and all other heavy equipment
- Properly maintain equipment and perform preventive maintenance
- Remove old and diseased trees with heavy equipment
- Load, unload, stack, apply, and remove tree wraps
- Clean ditches and ditch banks
- Bank and unbank soil around tree bases
- Manually apply water, and farm chemicals
- Operate ATVs, lawn mower, pneumatic, gas and hydraulic powered hand tools
- Manually load and unload, stack bags of soil, fence materials, and irrigation parts
- Keep work area and equipment/supplies clean. Clean equipment
- Ability to follow GPS treatment patterns, identify individual plant species for treatment, and follow complex treatment protocols or instructions.
- Requires acceptable driving record.
- Requires minimum vision standards, depth perception and adequate pulmonary function test.
- Requires standing, walking, and sitting, for extended periods.
- Requires performance of repetitive stooping, kneeling, bending, twisting, pushing, and pulling.
- Requires moving of materials and equipment up to fifty (50) pounds over distances of ten (10) feet or more.
- Ability to work at heights up to twenty (20) feet or more.
- Some previous equipment operation experience preferred.
- Must have a valid driver’s license in good standing and maintain status as an approved driver for the company and to safely operate vehicles.
