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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

23

Job Duties:

Workers will be required to drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops. Workers will be asked to operate vehicles, mechanized devices or equipment. The workers will be running, maneuvering, navigating or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment such as forklifts, tractors, and passenger vehicles. Workers will control machine processes using either mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes. Workers will direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities. Workers will be asked to spread plastic or cover crops with netting materials or plastic and remove them when no longer needed by hand or machine. Workers will install and maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment, and remove drip tubing or install drip tubing, dig, and maintain ditches. In addition, workers will be required to perform variable tasks such as the loading agricultural products for shipment, prepare materials for plant use, load materials or equipment for processing; drive passenger vehicles; record agricultural data, attach equipment extensions or accessories. Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Workers must obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand, and comply with safety, pesticide warning/re-entry and other essential postings. Workers will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of herbs and vegetables. Workers will be required to manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables such as: Green/Red Romaine, Green/Red Oak, Green/Red Leaf, Mizuna, Arugula, Green/Red Chard, Tatsoi, Spinach, Kale as well as other types of vegetables, lettuce crops, culinary herbs, microgreens, and other field crops. Worker will be required to use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. Employees may be required to assist with farm building and field maintenance, repair fences, and/or repair or cover hoop houses.The employer attests that workers and handlers will receive annual pesticide safety training in accordance with the Worker Protections Standard (WPS) mandated by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Though unlikely, during certain times of the season, workers may be rquired to work at night.

Job Classification:

45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

The job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial agricultural employment experience, preferably on a vegetable farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. This is hard, strenuous labor, under cold, wet conditions in the spring, and extreme heat and humidity in the summer. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license will be required to drive passenger company vehicles. Continued on Addendum C.

Number of Hours Per Week:

51

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

6:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Duncan Family Farms, Inc.

Location:

Goodyear, AZ 85395

Worksite

Address:

11835 W Lower Klamath Lake Road, Klamath , OR 97633

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24011-633916

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/23/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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