- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 8
- Job Duties:
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
Observe and listen to machinery operations to detect equipment malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, and irrigation equipment.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Farm machinery is used to help with soil preparation, crop planting, harvesting, and crop processing.
Workers' activities include cleaning and preparing farm equipment for daily use.
Workers will conduct post-harvest, end-of-season activities, including repairing, cleaning, and preparing farm equipment for the following season.
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop
Harvest of tree crops and vegetable crops; crop/field maintenance; planting; weeding with long-handled hoe.
Placement and removal of wood stakes, string and plastic required for growing crops.
Weeding with a long stick hoe and harvest of peppers (various varieties), tomatoes, almonds, eggplant, garlic.
Irrigation - move aluminum pipe, install drip tape, drip tape & aluminum pipe connection, shovel work.
Harvest vegetable crops: Jalapeno Peppers, Bell Peppers, mini peppers, Habanero Peppers, Garlic and tomatoes.
Packing vegetable crops: Jalapeno Peppers, Bell Peppers, mini peppers, Habanero Peppers, Garlic, Eggplant and tomatoes. All packing is done on the farm.
Workers who possess, or are able to obtain, a valid Class C driver’s license may be required to operate company vehicles and transport other workers as part of their job duties.
All Worksites are within a normal commuting distance from the central pick-up location (Los Banos housing).
Employer-provided transportation is available to all workers from the central pick-up location.
All workers residing within the AIE can reasonably return to the their residence or the employer-provided housing within the same workday.
Worksites are clustered around Gilroy to the East and Le Grand to the West, with Los Banos located centrally in between both worksite clusters.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse