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Job Description

Full Time:

Shared.yes

Number of Workers Requested:

8

Job Duties:

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, transplanting, cultivating, harvesting, and field packing of fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also including making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. Additional tasks include: Maintain all headers, drip irrigation and overhead systems. Irrigation and watering crops, pasture, and farm landscaping. Repair irrigation systems as needed. Spray pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides with the backpack or tractor sprayer following all safety standards. Perform field & property maintenance including mowing and weed eating fields and other areas of the farm. Maintain roads and drainage ditches on farm property. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers in a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed and shipped from the farm. Watermelons/ Cantaloupe Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to worker. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce onto trailer, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Tomatoes Pre-harvest duties for tomatoes may include laying plastic, planting, staking and weeding plants by hand and/or hoe. Harvest primarily consists of harvesting tomatoes by hand. The outlined job duties will require workers to stand, walk, stoop, bend and lift up to 75 lbs continuously. These task will require individuals to work quickly and consistently and for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Help with post-harvest cleanup including pulling, piling, and sorting plastic, stakes, string and field row irrigation components. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to workers.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Shared.yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

5:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Wild Hope Farm

Location:

Chester, SC 29706

Worksite

Address:

575 Wild Hope Farm Rd, Chester, SC 29706

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25008-604456

Multiple Worksites:

Shared.no

Date Posted:

1/14/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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