Tractor Driver Vacancy Ref No: 3/3/1/36/2026 at Department of Agriculture – Middelburg, Eastern Cape

SALARY : R170 226 per annum (Level 03)
CENTRE : Eastern Cape: Middelburg

REQUIREMENTS : Applicants should be in possession of an NQF stage three (Grade 10 certificate). Minimum of 1 yr  of experience. Job associated knowledge: Establishment of pastures, planting and cultivation of crops. Basic calculations for mixing and application costs of herbicides and pesticides. Calibration of planters and crop sprayers. Functioning, upkeep and restore of farm tools and infrastructure. Job associated skills: Operating a tractor, Operating specialised machinery such as TLB, Bulldozer etc, Using of special implements, Planting and harvesting of crops. Road Maintenance. A legitimate driver’s license (Code C1)

DUTIES : Operate a tractor with more than a few implements (such as ploughs, Rippers, Planters, crop sprayers etc) connected to help with the bodily execution of a variety of general farming activities, thru inter alia: Land cultivation, Planting, Tillage, Harvesting, Transportation of more than a few goods, Fire fighting, fencing activities, Mowing of garden etc. Perform avenue and firebreak protection works and construction associated features via the use of excellent machinery. Operate a specialised equipment (such as harvesters, drilling equipment, excavators, sewer jetting computing device etc.) Perform automobile renovation and administrative support things to do such as inter alia the following: Ensure the secure storage, cleaning and hobbies upkeep of vehicle. Ensure the security storage, cleaning and hobbies upkeep of implements. Maintain a farm car month and kilometre logbook and record accordingly. Ensure the well timed reporting of defects to mechanical workshop in order to forestall similarly damage. Assist with meting out and receiving gasoline and oils.

ENQUIRIES : Mr Thabo Molekwa Tel No: (049) 802 6633 or Dr Loraine Van Den Berg Tel No: (049) 802 6740

APPLICATIONS : Applications can be submitted through hand transport at some stage in workplace hours to 20 Steve Biko Street, Agriculture Place, Arcadia, Pretoria, two or by means of e mail TDrecruit36@nda.gov.za

NOTE : EE Target: Africans and Persons with disability.