- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 7
- Job Duties:
- This job requires employees to handle a variety of manual labor, including but not limited to task associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual activities with accuracy and efficiency. Field workers will be assigned work every morning, depending on the required daily needs. Work will vary depending on crop, weather, and market demands. Crops grown on the farm include beets, carrots, broccoli, peppers, squash, tomatoes, melon, green beans, peas, cilantro, cucumbers, celery, cauliflower, lettuce, onion, radish. Additional to the farm related activities mentioned above, more crop specific duties include:
-Use of cutting knives for harvesting vegetables such as chard, kale, broccoli, lettuce, squash, tomatoes.
-Digging into the ground either pulling by hand or lowing out with tractor, depending on the consistency of the soil, to harvest beets, carrots, radish, turnips.
-Wash vegetables with pressure washer to get rid of excess dirt.
-Use twist ties/rubber bands to bundle bunches together to be packed either in plastic or carton box.
-Handpick vegetables such as beans and peas, watermelon, cantaloupe, and peppers.
-Workers will also perform planting, irrigating, fertilizing, and weeding activities.
-Workers may occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties associated with and directly related to the primary duties. Such work will be temporary and unsubstantial agricultural labor.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse