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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

10

Job Duties:

The farm work position includes duties associated with planting, cultivation, harvesting, and packing of strawberries, tomatoes, melons, blackberries, blueberries and other assorted fruits and vegetables; farm, field and packing maintenance, sanitation, and post-harvest cleanup as well as duties related to the deployment and maintenance of in-field irrigation and frost protection. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Strawberries: Workers will help install black plastic and drip irrigation on rows in the field being careful to cover all of the exposed edges of plastic cover with soil and being careful not to tear or punch holes in plastic. Workers may be asked to utilize implements associated with the installation of the plastic row covers incidental to performing required tasks on the ground. Workers will plant strawberry plants in pre-punched holes on the plastic covered rows being careful to place the strawberry plants at the same depth in the soil as they grew in the nursery. Workers will remove weeds from around the plants and from the row middles. Workers will bend and stoop to pick up strawberries according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers will be expected to pick fully ripe strawberries, discard any cat-faced, deformed, decaying or undersized berries according to supervisors instructions. Also, workers must carefully remove any undesirable berries from the plant that would later cause fungi to attack the plant. Workers may carry full containers weighing approximately 6 lbs to empty them into a field bin or load them onto a trailer. In some instances workers will be expected to fill a 4-quart / one gallon plastic pail carefully filling the pail to capacity (buckets must be full for correct measure and weight). The pails will be carried in a 2-bucket carrier to be picked in. When full, carried to end of rows at designated truck-loading place. Then the buckets of berries will be inspected for quality and loaded for transportation to roadside market. Depending on market demand, workers may also be required to pick strawberries in cups, clamshells and/or flats. Strawberries harvested specifically for sale at roadside stand as fresh market specialty basket containers must be field graded. For berries harvested for sale at roadside stands, extra care must be used to ensure that each strawberry is undamaged and perfect. All berries must be handled carefully to prevent bruises or fingernail cuts. Pickers will take extreme care not to damage the delicate berries. Quality and workmanship is of the utmost importance. Pre-harvest activities for strawberries may include weeding and transplanting. Workers may be required to perform other tasks maintenance activities in the strawberry operation. When harvest is completed the workers will assist in removing the strawberry plants from the plastic to prepare for planting the next crop. In some instances workers may be required to remove the plastic and rip irrigation from the row and load on the trucks for removal from field.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense. Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Boone Hall Farms

Location:

Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

Telephone Number:

+18438844371

Worksite

Address:

1235 Long Point, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-22322-595218

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

11/30/2022

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