- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- Crew Leaders (Wine Grapes) Under the direction of the First-Line Supervisor:
• Assign duties, such as cultivation, irrigation, or harvesting of crops or plants, product grading, or equipment maintenance.
• Train workers in techniques such as planting, harvesting, weeding (long handled hoe or shovel), or insect identification and in the use of safety measures.
• Confer with managers to evaluate weather or soil conditions, to develop plans or procedures, or to discuss issues such as changes in fertilizers, or cultivating techniques.
• Inspect crops, fields, or plant stock to determine conditions and need for cultivating, weeding, or harvesting.
• Move water and shade
• Review employees' work to evaluate quality and quantity.
• Recording time sheets, record keeping and data collection.
• Communicate worker performance to Supervisors and Management.
The Crew Leader will direct and assist other field workers under the direct supervision of the First-line Supervisor: The activities directed include:
Vineyard Work
• Pruning by hand – removal of unwanted wood from vine.
• Suckering by hand – removal of any extra unwanted shoots on cordons/canes, trunks, removal of any short canes and shoots from the cordon/cane
• Erosion control by hand – install fiber roll, straw mulch, silt fence, water bars
• Replant grapevines by hand in existing vineyards
• Training young vines by hand to stake and onto the fruit wire
• Canopy management by hand – moving wires to position shoots within the trellis system to maintain a vertical growing grapevine
• Leafing and lateral removal by hand – removing leaves from the fruit zone during the growing season; removing lateral growth from the canes within the fruit zone and growing canopy
• Installation and repair of trellis by hand, wires, stakes, hoses and drip emitters in existing vineyards and new developing.
• Pest Control by hand (growth tubes, milk cartons, netting) – install growth tubes and or cartons around young vines to protect plants from feeding animals and to promote good vine growth; install bird netting over the vineyards fruit zone to protect fruit from feeding birds
• Weed control – Crop weeding will be done with long-handle shovels, long-handle hoes, and weed eaters to cut weeds from under the vines and for weed control around slopes of vineyards and along adjacent roads.
• Crop thinning– Crop thinning will be done with shears to remove of clusters during specific times of year to enhance fruit quality.
• Harvesting grapes by hand
All hand-related harvesting will be in accordance with California law.
• Tractor mowing, disking, leafing, hedging, spraying, and small repair work: Set up and operate a tractor with mowing, disking, leafing, hedging, or spraying implements. Also complete small repair work on tractor as needed.
• Tractor harvest: Set up and operate a tractor for harvest
• ATV Irrigation: Use an ATV to turn on and off irrigation valves and fix leaks to the irrigation system.
• Hand Vineyard Maintenance: Ranch clean up
• Vineyard Development: Land preparation, trellis installation, irrigation installation, vine planting, vine training. May need to use tractors.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse