Shuttle Driver

Job description

Shuttle driver will pick up workers, take them to worksite, field walk and drive workers back to their housing. They will also assist with timekeeping, fill water jugs with drinking water for the workers each morning, and ensure field sanitation measures are maintained throughout the day. They are required to live in the housing provided by the employer and take workers once a week to the bank and food store.

These employees will also plant various ornamental shrubs and landscape-type trees such as oak, holly, cypress, ligustrum, palms, and pine trees. Workers will make potting soil for plants, lay down fabric for potted plants, remove diseased plants, replant ornamental shrubs, and transplant plants. They will use Bush Hog to mow in between rows of plants/trees. Duties also include harvesting pine needles. Other duties include cleaning land, weeding, repairing fences, barn and buildings on the farm, as well as general farm labor. Work will be done under extreme weather conditions and physical conditions such as heavy bending, stooping and lifting.

The employer will provide the tools and equipment necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools and equipment.

Special Requirements

Shuttle driver must possess an insurable driver's license with a clean driving record (no major violations such as, but not limited to, driving while intoxicated or reckless driving). They must be able to communicate with field laborers in their spoken language.