Careers at TRULAND Equipment

Working at a dealership group

A John Deere dealership is not one job. It is a service shop, a parts warehouse, a sales floor, a technology support desk and a construction crew operating under one roof, and every one of those departments runs on a different rhythm. We operate 18 store locations across Indiana and Ohio, which means the work happens in farm towns rather than in an office park, and the people doing it usually live within a short drive of the store.

The other thing worth saying up front is that this business follows the calendar. Spring and fall are long. Winter is when machines come in for inspections and rebuilds and the shop catches its breath. Anyone considering this line of work should understand that pattern before they start, because it shapes the whole year.

Below is a plain description of the kinds of roles our stores hire for and what that work actually looks like. Openings change by store and by season, so the current list lives on our careers page rather than here.

Service technicians

Technicians are the core of a dealership. The work covers diagnostics, scheduled maintenance, in-season repair and off-season reconditioning across tractors, combines, planters, sprayers, hay tools, compact construction machines and turf equipment. Some days that is a bearing and a chain. Other days it is a controller fault on a machine that has to be back in the field before dark.

Modern ag equipment is as much software as it is steel. A technician on a current combine is reading fault codes, checking calibrations and working through John Deere Service ADVISOR alongside a wrench. Expert Alerts and remote diagnostics mean a lot of troubleshooting starts before the machine ever arrives. People who like solving a problem they cannot see tend to do well here.

Field service is its own version of the job. That is a service truck, a customer's yard or a field entrance, and the machine in front of you is the only one that matters that afternoon. It suits people who are comfortable making decisions on their own and talking directly to the person who owns the machine.

Parts counter and parts drivers

The parts counter is where speed matters most. A parts specialist looks up machines by model and serial number, works through exploded diagrams, catches the running changes that trip people up mid-model-year, and gets the right number in someone's hand the first time. It rewards a good memory and patience with a caller who can describe a part but cannot name it.

Parts drivers move inventory between our stores and out to parts drop locations. In July, a driver making a run is the difference between a customer finishing a field and parking a machine overnight. The job is early mornings, a lot of miles across Indiana and Ohio, and knowing the back roads better than the map does.

Equipment sales

Sales at a dealership is less about pitching and more about knowing farms. A salesperson works the same ground for years, learns what a customer runs and why, and helps them think through machine sizing, trade timing, financing and used options. Trust gets built over a decade, and it gets lost in one bad recommendation.

The role covers new John Deere equipment, used inventory across tractors, harvesting, tillage, planting, sprayers and hay tools, and the turf and compact side where the customer might be a homeowner, a landscaper or a township crew. Product knowledge matters, but listening matters more. A lot of the job is telling somebody the smaller machine is the right one.

Precision ag specialists

Precision ag support sits between agronomy and technology. The work involves John Deere Operations Center data, display setup and updates, guidance and RTK, boundary mapping, prescription files and in-field startup when a planter or sprayer has to run correctly on day one. We operate a Precision Ag Support Center, so part of this role is phone diagnostics with a customer who is sitting in a cab and losing daylight.

It calls for someone who can explain a data problem to a farmer in ordinary words and who does not mind that the busiest weeks of the year are also the ones where nothing can wait. People come into this work from farming, from IT, from agronomy and from the service shop.

Grain systems and millwright crews

Our grain division has been in the grain storage and handling industry for almost 60 years, and it hires differently from the rest of the dealership. Crews handle site layout, equipment selection, installation, millwright work, routine and preventative maintenance and dryer service. That means bins, legs, catwalks, conveyors, dryers and towers.

This is outdoor construction work at height, on a schedule set by harvest. A crew often finishes a system in the weeks before grain starts moving, then shifts to service and maintenance once bins are full. It suits people who want to point at something standing in a field and say they built it.

Administration and store support

A dealership group this size needs people handling billing, warranty claims, inventory records, scheduling, marketing and the front desk. Warranty administration in particular is detailed work that customers never see and would notice immediately if it stopped. Front counter and office staff are often the first voice a customer hears, and at a store in a small town that voice tends to belong to someone the caller already knows.

How to apply

Applications go through our careers section, and John Deere also lists dealership and corporate opportunities on its own careers page. If you are interested in a specific store, it is worth applying online and then calling that store directly so the manager knows your name.

If you are early in your career, ag equipment technology programs at area schools feed directly into technician roles, and plenty of people at our stores started on the parts counter or in the wash bay and moved into the shop or into sales. Tell us what you have worked on, what you would like to learn, and which of our locations across Indiana and Ohio you can reasonably drive to.