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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

25

Job Duties:

Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor, Workers will prep the land, pull weeds, raking, hoeing, clean around the farm, laying irrigation pipes, and digging ditches. PLANTING: All crops. Worker will plant and/or replant as needed. These tasks will include repetitive and physically demanding shovel work. Worker may lift up to 60lbs. Worker may be required to ride a mechanical planter (training will be provided). Worker may be required to hand plant using tools such as a spade or hand trowel. Harvesting of vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a container. Once the container is full the worker will take the container to the truck and dump the content. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating the process through the work day. Workers will also load the crops onto a small trailer. Vegetable Packing: Trucks will take the harvested vegetables to the packing house which is located inside the farm, workers will pick out the vegetables that will be used for seed the rest of the vegetables will be separated by size, labeled and packed. Note: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer. General Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, field prep, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weeding, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair, will lay and take out plastic, tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines. Repackers: Grade, sort or classify harvested onions/peppers/carrot/melons, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe other vegetables on an assembly line according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Make and close containers/boxes and record grade and/or identification numbers. Measure, weigh, count and check harvested products and materials. Stack boxes/containers onto pallet. Clean, load and unload harvested products. Tractor Operation: Workers may be required to drive a tractor with attached equipment through the field or between fields incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect the operator, other workers, products, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. Cleaning: Workers are also responsible for farm and field sanitation including picking up trash and cleaning bathrooms and other farm sanitation duties. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Repair fences. Clean and maintain fields, work areas and equipment. Inform supervisors of crop progress. As a minor activity, workers will harvest and bale pine straw from small section on housing address and load/unload bales as instructed.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Presas Harvesting, LLC

Location:

Cobbtown, GA 30420

Worksite

Address:

1003 Gary Barnard Rd, Cobbtown, GA 30420

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25043-686574

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

3/5/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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