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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

2

Job Duties:

Crops: Blackberries, blueberries, melons, sweet corn, and soybeans. General farm work will include: prepare fields, seed beds, plastic growing beds, Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, and field crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives to support agricultural activities, including pruning berry crops. Duties may include tilling soil; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; May construct/repair trellises and repair or maintain farm buildings, and participate in irrigation activities. Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a driver’s license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion. Irrigation work will include: Set up drip/overhead irrigation systems, place or pull plastic, operate irrigation equipment. Harvest duties will include: Melons: hand harvest placed in bins, short melons by size; sweet corn handpick and place in 5 dozen sack. Blackberries and Blueberries: grade, and field pack blackberries (95%) and blueberries (5%) by hand. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries and blackberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must use care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size that are suitable for shipment to fresh fruit markets, as instructed by their supervisor. Green or red berries must not be picked. When picking blueberries, workers will carefully place picked berries into one gallon/six-pound buckets or clamshell containers and carry to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions. Workers will place full clamshell containers in flats at the end of the rows; Carry full buckets and full clamshell flats to the trailer in the field. Buckets and clamshells will be inspected for quality and weighed. Blackberries will be picked, graded, and packed, workers will carefully place picked berries into buckets with a net weight of 30 pounds or clamshell containers and carry them to the inspection location according to supervisors’ instructions. Workers will place full clamshell containers in boxes at the end of the rows; Carry full buckets and full boxes to the trailer in the field where fruit is inspected for quality and weight. Blackberries for fresh fruit markets must not be picked when wet. Workers must continuously check harvested berries when placing into clamshells or buckets. Defective and low-quality fruit will not be accepted and must be discarded. Defective berries include, but are not limited to those that are green, red, white, or leakers. Buckets and trays will be inspected to ensure berries are free of defects, and if accepted, workers will receive a ticket for each completed container. Workers must harvest fruit of desired size, ripeness and use care when harvesting not to damage berries. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Workers will walk down rows, bending to prune and remove floricanes that had produced fruit. Primocanes will be left unharmed by the removal process. Pruned canes will be piled in row middles. Hoe fields and weed crops. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Three months of farm work experience required. Walk, bend, reach, push, pull, and lift and carry up to 30 lbs. for prolonged periods of time and have hand dexterity. Work is outside in extremely wet, humid, hot and dirty conditions.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

8:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Mitchem Farms, LLC

Location:

Vale, NC 28168

Worksite

Address:

598 Jostle Ln., Vale, NC 28168

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24303-441181

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

See Addendum A.

Date Posted:

11/5/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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