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Super-Sod, the largest supplier of sod in the Southeast, is seeking an experienced Farm Laborer to join our Middle Georgia farm team. Experience operating tractors, forklifts, farm equipment, and/or heavy machinery is a plus. Bilingual skills in English-Spanish is a plus.
Pay Rate: $16 per hour.
Classification: Exempt*
Reports to: Farm Supervisor
Why join Super-Sod?
Super-Sod is an organization that has a 70-year reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services and products in the industry. With your active involvement, creativity, and support, Super-Sod will continue to achieve its goals.
Super-Sod offers a welcoming environment to both our customers and employees. Our teams work highly collaboratively and are proud of the dynamic culture which cultivates company-wide growth and teamwork. Super-Sod employees stand out as being industry professionals who offer knowledge, experience, and a passion to serve. In turn, the Company provides our family of employees’ competitive wage and benefit offerings to ensure their needs are exceeded and their own families are provided for. In addition to numerous awards for quality products, Super-Sod is honored to be consecutively named a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution year after year.
In addition to good working conditions and competitive pay, it is Super-Sod’s policy to provide a combination of supplemental benefits to all eligible employees. In keeping with this goal, each benefit program has been carefully devised. These benefits include flexible paid time-off, such as vacations and holidays, as well as comprehensive and innovative health and wellness plans that include products like medical, dental, vision, HSA, and supplemental life, accident, hospital, and critical illness. We are constantly studying and evaluating our benefit programs and policies to better meet present and future requirements. These policies have been developed over the years and continue to be refined to keep up with changing times and needs.
Under manager supervision, a Farm Laborer / Machine Operator performs work of moderate difficulty in the operation of various mechanical farm equipment; performs related farm and harvesting work as assigned.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Operates various mechanical farming equipment used in agricultural production, such as mowers, forklifts, and sprayers as well as other manual harvesting equipment.
- Performs inspection and maintenance of equipment, vehicles, buildings, and facilities.
- Participates in construction/maintenance projects.
- May train new staff or act as lead worker.
- May keep records and prepare reports.
- Performs other related tasks related to agriculture harvesting as assigned by Farm Supervisor.
Competencies
- Ethical Conduct.
- Leadership.
- Communication Proficiency.
- Technical Capacity.
- Organizational Skills.
