Tractor Driver

Schroeder-Manatee Ranch•Lakewood Ranch, FL

15h•Onsite

About The Position

The Tractor Driver will operate heavy equipment such as bulldozers, roller choppers, backhoes, and tractors with various implements including disc, mowers, and seeders. The role involves maintaining and servicing equipment, transporting equipment using a semi-trailer (requiring a CDL), setting and moving traps, spot spraying, repairing traps, and assisting with land management tasks such as prescribed fires and preparing planted fields and food plots. This position requires mechanical skills, proficiency in operating heavy equipment and tractors, and a strong safety awareness.

Requirements

Must possess some mechanical skills / be mechanically inclined.
Must have experience operating heavy equipment.
Must be proficient in the operation of a tractor.
Must be safety-minded and be aware of safety conditions around them and of others.
CDL needed for transporting equipment.

Responsibilities

Operate heavy equipment (bulldozer pulling roller choppers & backhoe).
Operate tractor pulling implements such as disc, mowers, seeder, etc.
Transport equipment from one job to another using semi-trailer (CDL needed) approximately eight times per year.
Maintain and service equipment used on a daily basis.
Setting, checking hog traps / vermin traps.
Moving traps as needed.
Spot spraying.
Repairing traps as needed for safe use.
Help with tasks in land management area (e.g., Prescribed fires, preparing for and performing).
Take care of planted fields and food plots, feeders, etc.