Farmworker/laborer
Employer
4332 M-88 North
Central Lake, MI 49622
United States
Job description
FARM LABORER: Worker will be required to perform a variety of tasks under supervision in vineyard and orchard operation.
Worker will be required to complete the following activities: general farm, orchard and vineyard maintenance; weeding; shoveling; hoeing; mowing; thinning; pruning; training vines; vineyard canopy management; grafting; planting and transplanting fruit trees; install tree screens/grow tubes; drive and operate vehicles, tractors or other agricultural equipment such as forklifts; routine general repairs and maintenance of farm equipment and tools on farm; conduct farm building repairs; construct and maintain trellis; construct and maintain bird netting and deer fencing; complete general hand tasks to include picking up garbage around the orchard/vineyard, removing old trees/vines, string and wire from trellis and orchard blocks; picking up sticks, rocks and brush throughout the farm; conduct various field and farm clean up tasks.
Special Requirements
Experience Requirement: 1 verifiable month of commercial agriculture experience in fruit required. Applicants must furnish job references from recent employers within the last 3 years establishing acceptable prior experience.
Drug testing not utilized as pre-employment tool.
Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for and worker agrees to work every day that work is available for entire employment period.
Worker must be able to perform job description duties in safe manner consistent with established safety procedures.
Field work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work may be scheduled during moderate rain, in high humidity, when trees are wet with dew/rain, and in temperatures as low as 10 degrees F and up to 100 degrees F. Worker should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions.