- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 10
- Job Duties:
- NUT CROPS AND OTHER FARM ACTIVITIES: Field workers will be responsible for the manual harvest of macadamia nuts. Workers will collect macadamia nuts on the ground based on quality, customer, or other agronomic standards, and place collected macadamia nuts in buckets. Workers will then empty the buckets into bags that hold 60 pounds of harvested macadamia nuts. Harvesting macadamia nuts involves hand harvesting ripe macadamia nuts off the ground. Field workers will utilize various tools and equipment, including, but not limited to conveyors, forklifts, trucks and trailers (on farm only), baggers, containers, cleaning equipment, computers, and various hand tools. Field workers will also perform farm and field maintenance activities such as facilities maintenance, clearing, planting, pruning, weeding, and other duties required in field maintenance. Bags hold 60 pounds of macadamia nuts. Workers who harvest more than 140 bags per week will receive a bonus of $4.00 per bag of macadamia nuts harvested over 140 bags.
TROPICAL FRUITS AND VEGETABLE CROPS: Field worker responsibilities include planting, sampling, weeding, rouging, detasseling, shoot bag, pollinate, harvest, shelling, and other duties to relating to growing and processing the various vegetable crops. Planting includes riding the planter to distribute crop seeds, walking behind the planter to ensure drip tube and seeds are properly installed in ground, and apply stakes for markers, secure drip irrigation and connecting to lines. Sampling includes taking leaf, vegetable, or fruit samples. Weeding includes utilizing various tools to manually remove weeds. Rouging includes identifying and removing undesirable plants based on quality, yield, or market requirements. Detasseling involves the removal of the tassels from the plant. Shoot bagging involves covering the plant shoots at various stages of plant growth. Pollination includes installation and removal of pollination bags and pollinating and covering shoots. Harvesting involves manually harvesting of crops. Shelling involves manually shelling corn after it has dried and ensure it is properly identified and tagged. Other tasks may include manually moving potted plants out of shade houses to the field, cleaning shade houses and other general farm clean up. Field workers will utilize various tools and equipment, including, but not limited to conveyors, washers, separators, dryers, scales, silos, moisture meters, forklifts, trucks and trailers (on farm only), tractors, sprayers, sizers, color sorters, baggers, containers, cleaning equipment, computers, and various hand tools. Field workers will be given the task procedures and specific training for each task. Field workers will continuously strive to do each duty with expertise and produce quality product.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse