- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 24
- Job Duties:
- Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor; work varies depending on the farm location. Duties may vary depending upon the weather and what crop is being tended. Crops include - Blueberries, Sweet corn, cucumbers,
eggplant, green and yellow summer squash, green and specialty peppers, purple top turnips and grasses. Nursery/High tunnel/Greenhouse: Work can range from filling trays and filling pots while planting seeds. Workers will water and take care of
crops being grown in the Nursery/High Tunnels/Greenhouse. Planting: Work can range from seeding/propagating the crop to transferring full- sized plants into fields. The workers may place seed/seedlings/ plants into soil via seeding/transplanting machinery
or into manually dug holes. Some crops will require manual wooden stakes placed into the ground and continual maintenance of string to hold up the crops. Hand Harvest: Working as a group, the vegetables will be harvested into a basket and sometimes
transfer into bins and pass to the end of the row. Workers may be required to use a knife or sheer to harvest certain crops. Picking Machine Operator: The workers will drive the picking machines, ride on the back of the picking machine, remove full crates from the
machine and stack them onto the truck or
carts. Replacing full crates on the machine
with an empty cart. Packing: Packing will
ONLY take place at two locations, 3rd St and
Fleming Pike. Packing will only include crops
harvested from the Vegetable farms. The
workers will pack products harvested from
the field into boxes, bags, or bins depending
on which crop is picked that day. Work also
includes making crates or boxes, washing
harvesting bins or baskets used in the field,
using a pallet jack, moving products with
defects out of production and cleaning
equipment after packing concludes. Workers
on no occasion will pack Blueberries.
Drivers: Any employee that operates a
passenger vehicles or heavy machinery must
have a valid United States or Mexican
Driver's License. Driving includes bringing
the harvested product from the field into the
designated packing house. Driving also
includes operation heavy machinery such as
picking machines and/or tractors. Tractor
work includes, disking of fields, cultivating,
subsoiling, towing wagons, brush cutting,
mowing, mulching, and fertilizing of fields.
Field Maintenance: Work Includes general
repairs and maintenance of any plastic
mulch in the rows that require it. May include
the use of a shovel, pulling drip tape, plastic,
or irrigation submain after an individual fields
harvest is completed. Cultivation: The
workers may use rakes, hoes, shovels and/or
hand pull weeds in the fields. Work may also
include the laying of plastic in rows and the
making of beds in specified fields. Spraying:
Work includes using a backpack sprayer for
weed or insect control. May also include
operating a tractor drawn sprayer. Irrigation:
Work may include digging shallow trenches
with a shovel, where they then place
irrigation pipes into the trenches of specific
fields followed by the placement of
submains. General irrigation system
maintenance of fields. Cleaning: Work
includes cleaning packing equipment after
packing concludes cleaning the camps and
picking up trash found in the fields and
common areas. Trimming: Work includes
trimming plants using loppers or hand
sheers. Gathering and placement of trimmed
material.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse