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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

55

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: sweet potatoes. Workers will work all duties involved in planting, growing and harvesting sweet potatoes. Workers will plant, cultivate and harvest sweet potatoes. Workers will cut planting slips and place in container according to instructions; ride transplanter and plant sweet potato plants; load/repair planting boxes. Workers will use care when working with potato knife. Workers will walk along row that has been previously plowed. Workers will drop potato slips into ground and cover back up with dirt. Workers will remove weeds manually either by hand or with a hoe. Workers will cut and groom potato plants. Workers will stoop, bend and kneel to pick up sweet potatoes using hands and fingers to dig out unexposed potatoes. Workers may grade in the field separating #1's and #2's into separate 5/8 field hampers. Canners, when harvested, will be placed into a separate bin. Damaged or diseased potatoes will not be harvested. Full hampers weighing up to 35 lbs. will be carried to truck row to be loaded onto truck or trailer. Workers will be required to stay in their assigned row. Workers may also be required to wash the sweet potatoes and get them ready for sale. Workers may be required to operate tractors, trucks and other farm equipment during field operations. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractors, trucks and other equipment before operating. Tractors and trucks should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks relating to crop production such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, weeding, cleaning and repairing farm buildings, seed beds, racks, grounds and other tasks related to general farming. 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.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working on a vegetable crop farm handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 75 lbs. Employer reserves the right to conduct employer-paid post-accident drug testing. Any employee who declines to take or fails a drug test will be immediately terminated.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Lewis M Bailey IV Farms Inc

Location:

Bruce, MS 38915

Worksite

Address:

124 Jimmy Beckley Road, Bruce, MS 38915

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24338-513185

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Harvesting sweet potatoes: $0.50 per 3-gallon bucket. The estimated hourly wage rate equivalent for this piece rate is $15.50 based on workers filling 31 3-gallon buckets/hour on average. Guaranteed AEWR is $14.53 per hour.

Date Posted:

12/17/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.50

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