- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 4
- Job Duties:
- • Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
• Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
• Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
• Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
• Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
• Rotational Grazing ( electric fence set up)
• Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
• Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
• Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
• Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
• Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
Order food for animals.
• Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, and helping with animal births.
• Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats
Vineyard Work
• Pruning by hand – removal of unwanted wood from vine.
• Suckering by hand – removal of any extra unwanted shoots on cordons/canes, trunks, removal of any short canes and shoots from the cordon/cane
• Erosion control by hand – install fiber roll, straw mulch, silt fence, water bars
• Replant grapevines by hand in existing vineyards
• Training young vines by hand to stake and onto the fruit wire
• Canopy management by hand – moving wires to position shoots within the trellis system to maintain a vertical growing grapevine
• Leafing and lateral removal by hand – removing leaves from the fruit zone during the growing season; removing lateral growth from the canes within the fruit zone and growing canopy
• Installation and repair of trellis by hand, wires, stakes, hoses and drip emitters in existing vineyards and new developing.
• Pest Control by hand (growth tubes, milk cartons, netting) – install growth tubes and or cartons around young vines to protect plants from feeding animals and to promote good vine growth; install bird netting over the vineyards fruit zone to protect fruit from feeding birds
• Weed control by hand – using mechanical string trimmer for weed abatement and or a shovel (long-handled) to cut weeds from under the vines and for weed control around slopes of vineyards and along adjacent roads
• Crop thinning by hand – removal of clusters during specific times of year to enhance fruit quality
• Harvesting grapes by hand
All hand-related harvesting will be in accordance with California law.
• Tractor mowing, disking, leafing, hedging, spraying, and small repair work: Set up and operate a tractor with mowing, disking, leafing, hedging, or spraying implements. Also complete small repair work on tractor as needed.
• Tractor harvest: Set up and operate a tractor for harvest
• ATV Irrigation: Use an ATV to turn on and off irrigation valves and fix leaks to the irrigation system.
• Hand Vineyard Maintenance: Ranch clean up
• Vineyard Development: Land preparation, trellis installation, irrigation installation, vine planting, vine training. May need to use tractors.
• Incidental driving duties: workers with driver licenses may drive company-owned pick-up trucks in the fields, between worksites, and to and from housing.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse