- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 6
- Job Duties:
- Field Worker (Wine grapes) to perform the following crop activities for wine grape:
Duties vary depending on the specific part of the growing season:
Work in grape vineyards during growing season (February through approximately May 2024) will include weed removal and vine suckering.
Work in grape vineyards during growing season (approximately June through July 2024) will include leaf removal.
Work in grape vineyards prior to growing season (February to mid-March 2024) will include vine pruning.
Work in grape vineyards on non-harvest activities (approximately August 2024 through mid-September 2024) will include early season crop removal, move wires, picking, root picking, irrigation, field maintenance, canopy management, shoveling, stake removal and replacement.
Work in grape vineyards during harvest season (approximately mid-September 2024 through mid-October 2024) will include picking wine grapes and activities directly related to wine grape picking.
Non-harvest related activities continue during harvest time of the year but are not directly related to wine grape picking and include fence repair, trellis repair, post removal and replacement, drainage, field gutters, plant new vineyard including digging, raking, clean up and post pounding.
Harvest activities include: Use sharp picking knives, standing and kneeling on ground to pick fruit.
Daily work requires lifting, bending, kneeling, walking, and carrying up to 70-pound trays. Work in cold, hot, windy, and damp weather. Work hours vary, and night shifts may be required.
Works as a member of a crew, or individually performing moderately complex tasks that require limited judgment. Use standard tools such as rakes, hoes (long handled) and shovels. Workers may occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties associated with and directly related to wine grape field and harvest work including but not limited to packing, closing/stacking boxes in and around the vineyard, and clean-up functions in and around the vineyard. Such work will be temporary and insubstantial agricultural labor.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse