- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 33
- Job Duties:
- The worker will perform job duties as assigned by supervisor. They will vary from time to time depending on crop ripening and weather. The tomato and bell pepper planting, harvesting, and field work is temporary and will last from March to November.
In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and have the required physical strength and endurance to repeat the field work, planting, and harvesting process rapidly and skillfully with their hands, and also carry a large number of containers and/or packing bags or boxes full of crop from the area in which the crop is being harvested to the location of the loading truck. Workers will perform prolonged walking, bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying 0-27 lbs.
The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.
Field Work- During the contract from March to November, the workers will be involved in preparing the farm and fields for the harvesting season. The work will consist of weeding, putting down ground cloth, digging trenches, laying down irrigation, planting, staking, and other miscellaneous work.
Bell Pepper Planting- The worker will go down the fields carrying trays of bell pepper transplants and plant them individually in the prepared planting bed by bending down and planting the transplants in the ground. This process will be repeated until planting has been completed.
Tomato Planting- The worker will go down the fields carrying bundles of tomato transplants and plant them individually in the prepared planting bed by bending down and planting the transplants in the ground. This process will be repeated until planting has been completed.
Tomato Harvesting-The workers will go down the field rows and pick the tomatoes according to the ripeness and size instructed to be picked. The tomatoes are placed in a bucket . When the bucket is full the worker walks to the nearest transporting trailer to dump the bucket. When field packing is required the tomatoes are placed in boxes, plastic containers, or bags. When they are full, the worker walks them to the nearest transporting trailer and leaves the tomatoes and is given an empty box, plastic containers, or bags to repeat the process again.
Bell Pepper Harvesting-The workers will go down the field rows and pick the bell peppers according to the ripeness and size instructed to be picked. The bell peppers are placed in a bucket. When the bucket is full the worker walks to the nearest transporting trailer to dump the bucket. Then once again the process is repeated. When field packing is required the bell peppers are placed in boxes, plastic containers, or bags. When they are full, the worker walks them to the nearest transporting trailer and leaves the bell peppers and is given an empty box, plastic containers, or bags to repeat the process again.
Due to the nature of this type of work, there will be a Probationary Period of six (6) days beginning on the first day of employment for the employee to acclimate to the job specifications listed under the Job Descriptions and Requirements. The worker will be given specific instructions as to how to properly perform the work specified in the Job Description and Requirements Section on the first day of work. Workers who do not perform the work as specified, may be terminated.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.02 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop