- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 25
- Job Duties:
- Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Workers are provided with a uniform.
Harvest Dumper - is required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting equipment and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Buckets/Harvest container weigh approximately 15-35 lbs. when filled with product and will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket/harvest container to the harvesting employee placing a token (if paid by piece rate) inside the bucket/harvest container for them to receive. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) on top of the full container and continue the process.
Harvesting of All Tomato Variety - Using a 24-quart bucket, remove mature tomatoes from the plant with both hands (also remove calyx and stem from tomato) and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the tomato bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a brisk pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands and hand it to the person next the bin. The person next to the bin dumps the tomatoes into the bin and returns the bucket with a ticket in it. Save the ticket to keep count of how many buckets you pick. Repeat process.
Food Safety/General cleaning - The employee will be required to clean buckets and general cleaning of work site areas Appling to food safety.
Packing field/Mule train - The worker will be required to do the following tasks in the field:
Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, record keeping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors.
Packing Tasks - The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, record keeping, hand jack and forklift operation, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse