- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 4
- Job Duties:
- Crops/Commodities: trees. This job
requires a minimum of 3 months of
verifiable agricultural experience
working in a tree farm handling both
manual and mechanized tasks.
Applicants must be able to furnish
verifiable job reference(s) or
comparable third party documentation
from recent employer(s) establishing
acceptable prior experience. Workers
must be able to perform manual and
mechanized tasks with accuracy and
efficiency. Mow, cut, and weed fields.
Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing,
hauling, ground preparation, and other
manual tasks. Bending, stooping and
kneeling required. Use hand tools
including but not limited to hoes,
shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and
saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload
products or supplies. Use power
equipment including but not limited to:
tractors, planters, mowers, plows,
sprayers, cultivators, power shears,
chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid
loaders. Must operate agricultural
equipment safely, with or without
direction. Apply pesticides, herbicides,
fungicides, and other crop protectants.
Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth
chemicals, conditioners, and other
plant related treatments at the correct
times depending on plant type, growth,
climate and crop conditions. Assist
with farm building/field maintenance
and repairs. Build/repair fences. Work
on production line. Grade, size, sort,
and pack product. Bunch/bundle
product pursuant to supervisor
instructions. Fill bins/trays and other
containers with product, level bins, and
prepare product for shipment to
market or storage. Perform quality
control on inbound/outbound loads.
Follow quality control standards and
production procedures. Handle product
carefully to prevent damage. Lift,
carry, and load/unload products or
supplies. Palletize and stack
boxes/containers. Use power
equipment including, but not limited,
to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and
cooling equipment/refrigeration units.
Operate equipment safely, with or
without direction. Assist with regular
maintenance on equipment.
Clean/sanitize work station and
equipment. Plant, cultivate, harvest,
cut and bale trees. Plant seedlings or
‘liners’ by hand (including riding and
inserting liners in a mechanical
planter) using mattock or dibble.
Prepare trees for digging by tying or
wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees
with shovel or tree spade. Selects
trees for cutting according to
markings, size, species and grade. Cut
trees using axe or chain saw. Drag cut
trees from cutting area. Runs trees
through tree baler. Inventory and grade
trees. Must follow supervisor's
instructions on pruning/shearing. Shear
trees with proper taper and bud cut
angle for quality. Products must be
handled carefully to prevent damage.
Balled and burlap (B & B) tree
production: Workers will be required to
work as operators of skid steers with
tree spade attachments or haul out
trees. Workers may be required to
work on the ground packaging the
finished root ball on a tree by stapling
burlap with hog ring pliers, tying
basket loops with twine, crimping
baskets with pig tail crimpers or tying
branches with twine. Loading and
Unloading: Workers will be required to
work on flat bed trailers, tying B & B
trees to the trailer with twine. Workers
will be required to work loading or
unloading bare root trees by hand or
machine into trailers. Work is done in
the field for long periods of time.
Workers may assist in handling product
weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to
a height of 5 feet. Workers must work
on their feet in bent positions for long
periods of time. Work requires
repetitive movements and extensive
walking. Work required in fields when
plants are wet with dew and rain, and
may be required during light rain, snow,
moderate winds, direct sun, high
humidity and extreme temperatures.
Temperatures in fields during working
hours can range from 10 to over 100
degrees F. Workers may be required to
work during occasional showers not
severe enough to stop field operations
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse