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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

3

Job Duties:

The worker will have the task of planting agriculture plants, which requires workers to be bent over for long periods of time for many hours per day. The worker, in order to perform this kind of work, must be able to work outside for at least 5 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. To plant and harvest watermelon the worker will walk down the field rows where the product will be harvested. For watermelon harvest: The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20lbs to 80lbs from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor, loaded buses will be transported by farm field driver to the packing location on the farm. Packing: When the trailer is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the product, put it in a convener belt that will transport the product into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed by workers. Drivers will move/drive in field buses. Driver will drive harvesting (cut downs) buses through the field roads only. Drivers will drive the length of the field as many time as needed to fill buses with product. Drivers will move at a slow pace a the field workers will be hand loading the harvesting bus being driven. Drivers will then park full buses at the entrance/exit of the field and retrieve an empty to bus to repeat the process of filling a harvesting bus. Workers will assist the employer with the livestock by caring for and feeding horses, dogs, cats, and cattle when not tending to crops and fields. Assistance is needed during Feb-April to help with birthing calves, feeding assistance is needed during the fall, winter and early spring months. Duties will include feeding, managing, working, hauling livestock, fence repair, welding, maintaining livestock pastures, paddocks, and corrals, and working facilities as requested by the farmer.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning. Due to the type of work involved, if worker can not maintain the level of production set forth by the farmer, the worker will have to be terminated for being unable to complete the work as deemed in this order.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

MMR FARMS LLC

Location:

SCOTTSBURG, IN 47170

Telephone Number:

+15025483736

Worksite

Address:

4835 E KINDERHOOK ROAD, SCOTSBURG, IN 47170-6115

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24121-940442

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

5/14/2024

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