Seasonal Agriculture Technician

Minimum Qualifications:

• Good driving record.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The State Grain Laboratory has a peak work season starting at the end of July and lasting until early January.  During these months, employees may be asked to work 10 hours a day and up to seven days a week to provide timely customer service.  During off-peak season, from January to July, employees may be asked to work a reduced work week.

Overtime is paid at 1.5 times base rate.

Lunch time is paid while in route and collecting samples.

Sampling is performed outdoors on railcars and trucks, indoors for totes and bags.

Workers can be exposed to discomforts and physical annoyances: traffic, road construction, adverse weather, noise, fumes, and dust.

Workers are required to lift up to 50 lb. crop samples and boxes.

Requires climbing ladders to the top of rail cars, hopper cars and trucks.  Must be able to carry a 12 ft. probe to the top and insert into 12 feet of compacted grain to obtain samples.

Other work duties may include processing of samples in the laboratory.  Sample processing requires the use of lab equipment where accuracy is critical to meeting federal standards.

May include occasional paid overnight stays and meals for sampling unit trains.