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Dates of Need: 2/15/2025-11/15/2025. This application encompasses maintaining an operating hop farm and row crop farm machinery and equipment as well as irrigation equipment and systems. Workers will also do farm labor duties and assist with hop harvest. This job requires a minimum of three months of agricultural equipment operator experience. The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.

Workers must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the harvest process throughout the workday. Workers must work at a sustained, vigorous pace and make\ bona-fide efforts to work efficiently and consistently that are reasonable under the climatic and all other working conditions.\ Workers may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for work related riding purposes or any other non-passenger intended equipment unless instructed and authorized by\ the employer or supervisor to do so.\ Workers with valid drivers licenses and that are insurable may transport workers, equipment, supplies or crop.\ All work-related injuries must be immediately reported to the crew leader, foreman, or supervisor.\ If light duty work is assigned for a workers compensation injury, the worker will be expected to return to work and perform the light duty work upon advice from a physician and the\ workers compensation insurance company.\ Employer-paid drug test may be required if a worker has an accident at work.\ Full Growing Season Commitment: The job offered requires that the worker be available for work every day that work is available for the full period of employment. The worker agrees\ to be available for work and perform the assigned work for the assigned employer whenever work is available through the full period of employment.\ Training: There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with job specification and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues such as particular\ grading, sizing or equipment operation,

Hop harvest is a physically demanding job. Hop bines can scratch and irritate skin. Workers will need to dress in long sleeve shirts and pants and wear gloves and eye protection.\ Hop harvest, from approximately August 25 - October 7, is a 24/7 job. Workers may have to work some night shifts.\ Hop Harvester Mechanic: Must observe picking machine and make sure it is running properly. Must keep track of all tools used and make sure machine is off when performing maintenance on any part of the machine.\ Worker must make sure all parts are lubricated and running properly.\ Hop Bine Hanger/Bottom Feeder: Job consists of unloading hop trucks at a stationary harvesting machine. Hanging bines is physically demanding and requires the employee to grab, lift, and place the ends of the hop bines on the hooks that transfer the bines from the truck bed to the harvesting apparatus.\ Hop Truck Driver: Job consists of driving the hop truck into the field. The truck is loaded with hop bines and then returns to the harvest facility and carries out the duties of bine hanger/bottom feeder.\ Top Feeder: Job consists of the worker guiding hops into the machine, ensuring that they don\'t get tangled, the machine doesn\'t get jammed, and is running at capacity at all times. Assist machine mechanics in general maintenance and upkeep as directed.\ Bine Pick-Up: Walk rows after they have been harvested to pick up fallen hop bines that did not make it into hop trailers. Pile bines in field and place in trailers.\ Sweeper: Will use brooms to sweep fallen hops to bottom conveyor. Must keep processing area clean at all times.\ Stick Pickers/Hop Kiln/Dryer Help: Workers will pick sticks and debris out of hops being laid in hop kiln. Will make sure the hop floors are laid correctly. Employee must work for long periods in xtreme temperatures. Must communicate with the kiln operator and stick pickers. Must take moisture samples from each floor before taking the floors off. Operate conveyors to take the hops off the kiln floor once dried.\ Baling Hops: Workers must make sure baling machine is operating a capacity and correctly at all times. Must move hop bales with assistance from other workers and hand cart. Workers will observe and prep the balers as needed. Will sew bales closed with a sewing machine and may hand stitch bales if needed. Balers will keep records of numbers of bales and weights and temperature of each. Workers will mark each bale with lot and variety.\ Hyster Operator: Operator will communicate with the balers to move hop bales. Workers will be required to maintain, inspect and clean hyster after each shift.

Drip Irrigation\ Workers will roll out and/or roll up drip hose to hop plants in rows or take from field for end of season storage. They will inspect, monitor, and repair drip system daily.\ Twining/Stringing Hops: Attaching string (twine) between trellis and the ground. Driving the stringing cart (tractor) while other workers tie twine. Workers may ride on farm implement cart, approximately 18 feet above the ground, hand tying twine to trellis. Use tool to place metal clip in the ground. Affixing string to ground. Workers will fill water tank with hop twine to make twine damp. Workers will fix any s