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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

61

Job Duties:

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation,, harvesting of various fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending and lifting 50 pounds for long period of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence lo 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. Crops Contained in Request: Com. Workers may perform the following job duties on any of the commodities listed above and various points during the duration of the contract. Quality Checker: The worker may be asked to check the quality by moving down a row checking quality to ensure that all seed tassels were sufficiently removed. Corn Sorter: The worker will perform duties in the harvest complex that will involve removing damaged, diseased, noddy, and rogues ears of seed corn from the sorting belt. Placing unhusked ears of corn on the return belt. Grader: Graders will support the production process with labor as needed in the sorting area. Workers will follow oral instructions. Sort out all nonconforming material, ie husks/stalks, damaged/moldy product, rogues and off-types, inert material (weak and refuse). Sort out all lightly husked material to be conveyed back to the husking beds and reworked. Work is in conjunction with other sorting personnel with kernel clean in the sorting area as needed. Sorters are responsible for keeping work area clean and orderly, while performing reaching motion with arms and hands, twisting at the waist, stooping, talk and hear ? while performing the duties of this job. The employee is frequently exposed to continuous elevated noise levels and moving conveyors. Green Com Dump: Daily activities Include unloading of ear corn trucks, taking barrel and moisture samples. Documentation of received loads, cleaning out trucks, kernel cleaning dump equipment, and housekeeping and other duties as assigned. Husking Bed Operator: Monitor and maintain flow of ear com through husking beds in Husk Sort Building and complete kernel cleans of husk sort line along with housekeeping and other duties as assigned. Bin Fill (Dry Roofs): Monitor ear com flow into dryer bin and switch when the correct depth is reached and housing and other duties as assigned. Bin Unload Day: Unload dryer bin sending ear corn to sheller, kernel clean dryer bin, sorting dry ear corn, and housekeeping and other duties as assigned. The crew will be split into teams, each working from one of the dryer complexes sending corn to the shelling lines. Bin Unload Night: Unload dryer bin sending ear corn to sheller, kernel clean dryer bin, sorting dry ear corn, and housekeeping and other duties as assigned. The crew will be split into teams, each working from one of the dryer complexes sending corn to the shelling lines. Field Task: Weeding, raking, leaf sampling, gene checks, staking, picking up trash, and stocking harvest supplies. Production Harvest: Unloading trucks, hand sort of ear corn, separating husking equipment, loading and unloading ear corn, dryers, assisting with shelling operations, cleaning and maintaining equipment, maintenance and clearing of plant grounds in the harvest area, and other basic maintenance tasks. Assisting in the cleanup of the equipment and work area during hybrid code changes. Cleaning the lawn area around the harvest complex, as well as cleaning the work area at the end of each shift. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. The worker will walk down the aisles between the plants in the corn fields, for the purpose of detasseling seed corn, remove rogue plants, weeds, and volunteer corn plants from seed corn production fields.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

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

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

6:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Gulf Citrus Harvesting & Hauling Inc

Location:

LaBelle, FL 33935

Worksite

Address:

82785 545 Avenue, Madison, NE 68748

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-23109-946016

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

$75.00 per clean acre (to be paid at $42 for 1st pass, $22 for second pass, $11 for 3rd pass); $17.33 per hour guaranteed (minimum 0.10 acres per hour)

Date Posted:

5/2/2023

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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