Tractor Driver
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Schroeder-Manatee Ranch is hiring a Tractor Driver. The Tractor Driver operates heavy equipment, including bulldozers, backhoes, and tractors with various implements like discs, mowers, and seeders. This role involves transporting equipment, maintaining machinery, and assisting with land management tasks such as prescribed fires and caring for planted fields. The position requires mechanical skills and a safety-minded approach.
Key focus areas include Operate tractor and implements such as disc, mower, seeder, spreader, Operate bull dozer or backhoe, and Transport equipment from one job to another using semi-trailer.
Successful candidates bring Commercial Driver's License and Heavy Equipment Experience. Important skills include Mechanical Skills, Operating Heavy Equipment, Operating A Tractor, and Safety-Minded.
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POSITION SUMMARY:
Operate heavy equipment (bulldozer pulling roller choppers & backhoe). Operate tractor pulling implements such as disc, mowers, seeder, etc.
WORK SCHEDULE: Monday to Friday from 7am to 5pm.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
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70% of time will operate tractor and implements such as disc, mower, seeder, spreader.
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30% of time will operate bull dozer or backhoe.
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Will transport equipment from one job to another using semi-trailer (CDL needed) approximately eight times per year.
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Maintain and service equipment used on a daily basis.
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Setting, checking hog traps / vermin traps
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Moving traps as needed
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Spot spraying
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Repairing traps as needed for safe use
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Help with task in land management area ex. Prescribed fires, preparing for and performing
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Take care of planted fields and food plots, feeders, etc.
SKILLS & ABILITIES:
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Must possess some mechanical skills / be mechanically inclined.
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Must have experience operating heavy equipment.
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Must be proficient in the operation of a tractor.
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Must be safety-minded and be aware safety conditions around them and of others.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Work is performed outside exposed to different weather conditions; Hazards exposure to mowing parts, outside conditions, rough terrain.
We offer excellent benefit plans which includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, PTO, 401K, etc.
SMR Farms is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
SMR Farms is a Drug Free Workplace. If offered a job, candidates will need to successfully pass a pre-employment drug test. Please note that the company Drug Free Workplace policy includes, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random testing.
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