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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

4

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: Crops including, but not limited to: berries, sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cabbage, pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe, other seasonal vegetables, mums, wheat, hay, corn, soybeans & straw. Workers will hand-plant, transplant, cultivate, hand-harvest vegetables, and pack sweet corn; plant, cultivate and harvest field crops, including corn, soy beans, wheat, hay and straw. Workers will plant, cultivate, and irrigate mums. Workers will perform hand-weeding and hoeing. May assist with irrigation. May spread and remove plastic or other ground covering. May stake, tie, trellis and/or prune plants. Other duties may include repairing fences, clearing fence rows, loading/unloading trucks, cutting, chopping, splitting and stacking firewood, loading/unloading and stacking square straw and hay bales in barns and on trucks, ground preparation, including clearing fields, burning brush and picking stones. May assist with general farm building maintenance and equipment maintenance and repair. Workers must be physically able to perform seeding, planting, mowing and heavy lifting. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Work is to be done for long periods of time. Workers will assist in loading trucks with packaged product weighing up to and including 75 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 10 to 100 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. While the employer does not require prospective applicants to take and pass a drug test prior to a hiring decision, the employer has a no-exceptions drug free workplace policy. The employer will require every employee to take and pass an employer paid drug test upon reasonable suspicion of use and/or after a worker has an acccident. If an employee tests positive, he/she is immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense. Since the employer's place of business, a farm market, is frequented by the general public, the employer requires that all newly hired employees take and pass an employer-paid background check. All background checks are conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. If a conviction is discovered, a determination will be made whether the conviction is related to the position for which the individual is applying or would present safety or secrity risks before an employment decision is made. A criminal conviction does not necessarily automatically bar an applicant from employment. Any employee terminated will be paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a foreign worker who is terminated for cause resulting from findings of the background check, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense.

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 verifiable agricultural employment experience on a commercial fruit and/or vegetable farm. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Workers will be expected to perform manual jobs as well as equipment operation with accuracy and efficiency beginning with planting through harvest. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 75 lbs. Employer-paid drug testing upon reasonable suspicion of use and/or post accident. Employer-paid background check required.

Number of Hours Per Week:

48

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Spangler Farms Market

Location:

Yorktown, IN 47396

Worksite

Address:

Spangler Farms - 8081 W. CR 200 S., Yorktown, IN 47396

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25021-631319

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/29/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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